Good action, but oh the rest!!!

Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2009)

You do see the money up on the screen - the attack on Pearl Harbour has some of the best CGI on screen, whatever the moaners say. It does not flinch from showing people dying - yes, Americans getting killed and getting their arses whipped! Extremely unusual on screen... The background as to why the actual Japanese attack is a little blurred - can't have any excuses for anyone wanting to attack USA, can we??? So the middle of the picture is pretty good - again don't listen to the moaners that Affleck and Hartnett don't play the real US airman who got in the air that day. After all the first officer on the Titanic blew his brains out on screen (sic?) and Matthew McConaughey rescued the Enigma codes in 'U571' for the US when in fact it was British sailors, and didn't Mel Gibson win the Vietnam War?!!! Yes, Hollywood has always played fast and loose with historical fact, so get over it. Mind I would have thought you might have seen a few more Yanks in the Eagle Squadron, and the Battle of Britain was over by 1941! But of the rest, the script is shoddy soap opera, the direction overblown, the acting with a couple of standouts poor, the plot derivative from other better movies (Kate Beckinsale on the beach in a two piece in Hawaii snogging!), and Ben Affleck's Clint Eastwood-like shoot out with the japs cringeworthy. Still one of the stars doesn't make it to the final shot which is unusual these days, although he comes home in a wooden box (Iraq, geddit!). And nowhere is there a hint that Roosevelt and Marshall may have sacrificed Pearl to get US into the war!