Murica reigns supreme

Rating: 3/10 (5 February 2020)

Oh dear, some badly out of scale cgi and much abused in many scenes, yet years ago pre-cgi they could convincingly blow up airplanes/models with much realism. Sadly the contrast between effects and green screen are glaring in this movie.
I was hoping in this day and age this movie was about to put the record straight about the reasons Japan went to war with the US, it started to touch on these aspects right at the beginning then unforgivably threw it all away to rush straight to the action. The war started way before Pearl Harbour and too many times the uneducated cite this as the only reason the US took action on Japan, like that nation had just woke up one day and said, 'hey, let's go bomb Pearl Harbour, it looks like a fun thing to do'. :-(
Actors were great as you would expect being the veterans they are but some cringeworthy dialogue does creep in here and there, the victors do write history after all. Why they needed to cover the Dolittle raid is beyond me, that was done excellently in another movie with great detail, it was almost a 'let's list all the great things we did in the war', conquests abound, I can imagine Trump giving his seal of approval as this being one of those times he speaks of when 'America was great'. For some it seems, maybe not the boot polisher down in Mississippi ;-)
At a few moments I felt this was more akin to a made for TV movie, gung-ho midday action flick along the likes of The Wild Geese or similar, passable, fun, forgettable...
Oh well, it's entertaining and doesn't require too much brain power. Like a car chase movie filled with 2 plus hours of exploding action, there's far worse on the screen I guess.