Better than 'Pearl Harbor'

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2019)

They made a little effort to get the story right, it would probably take a longer movie to get most of the background material and the movie covers a 6 month period, Pearl Harbor to Midway. Most of the fx were reasonably well done but like Bay in 'Pearl Harbor' the director tried to cram way too much action into each frame showing planes flying several feet off the ground, or flying in spaces between ships that they couldn't actually fit through. And the characters are every bit as wooden and cliched as you've read about elsewhere. For a thorough understanding of this period of WWII a much better choice would be to read 'Pacific Crucible'.My guess is that the screenwriter(s) probably did.