VERY poor writing and poorly directed, NO tension - a HUGE disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (10 December 2019)

Being a war movie fan and seeing the preview to this movie I was very excited to watch it, but was extremely let down once I did. I knew it was a bomb within about the first 3 minutes sadly, I really feel like I watched a different movie than most of the other reviewers here.
So the main problem is definitely the writing IMO. I see some saying it is historically accurate, and they covered a lot of ground. I am not an expert on history, but I have a feeling they are right about this, and the problem is likely they tried to cover TOO MUCH of the war, which actually leads into problem number 2 below. The trouble here was poorly written dialogue, and a story that jumps all over the place so much that no tension builds and you have no chance to get invested into anything, including the characters (so add poor character development to the list of failures here).
The Directing is the main other issue, you constantly jump from scene to scene, again so rapidly that you really have no chance to be invested in anything, and no tension builds. I remember one part of the movie in particular, it was right in the midst of a good war scene, then seconds later we were in someone's kitchen I mean WTF? Let the scenes and story develop some for Pete's sake before jumping to the next bit! Somewhere around 40 mins left, we finally got about 15 mins in a row without jumping around, it stayed focused on what was happening in that part of the war, and it was the best 15 mins of the movie, but no where near enough to save it.
I see many in negative reviews mentioning overuse of CGI, I really didn't find it to be much of an issue at all, and even if it was, it would still be the least of its issues
Of course comparisons to "Pearl Harbor" are inevitable, IMO that is just a much more enjoyable version of this movie overall, while not perfect it doesn't have the same HUGE glaring issues this one does.