Nice Historical Accuracy

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2020)

The Pacific Theater of World War Two has always been of great interest for me. Overall, this movie was quite accurate. Unlike Midway (1976) this one did not create fictional charracter and story lines, like Charlton Heston's Captain Matt Garth and the whole story line about his son loving a Japanese-American woman. In this movie, all of the principle characters were based on real people. This movie included the first cinematic portrayal of Bruno Gaido (Nick Jonas) that I'm aware of.
I think the movie could have better if it would have only focused on the Battle of Midway rather than try to cram the Pearl Harbor attack and Doolittle's Raid into the film. Both events could, and have been, their own movie. The Doolittle Raid part of this movie was poorly done and unnecessary, and seemed more like filler than anything else.
As mentioned in several reviews, the CGI effects were really bad. The did indeed look like a video game. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) had more convincing visual effects.
Ed Skrein's performance as protagonist LT Dick Best (another historical character) was grating and unlikable, but who knows? Perhaps the real Dick Best was grating and unlikable.
Woody Harrelson's Admiral Chester Nimitz was passable, as was Dennis Quaid's Admiral William "Bull" Halsey.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie, and recommend it to anyone who is interested in the Pacific Theater. It gets points from me because it didn't foul up an interesting historical event by injecting fictional story lines like Midway (1976_, Pearl Harbor (2001) and Titanic (1997.)