Incredible movie, dont listen to the critics!

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2001)

I finally saw this movie today (July 25) right before it will probably be pulled from the big theaters. Regardless of what the critics have said, I thought this was an incredible movie and is by far Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bays best. The movie appears to be very accurate and believable (as opposed to another Bay/Bruckheimer collaboration which was a piece of trash called "Armageddon"). Ive heard some say that the whole love story is irrelevant to the film, but I say it is very important to the film. Without it, we just have a bunch of people that we end up not caring about. If the whole movie stuck with strategy and stayed with the US and Japanese powers rather than the individual characters, then this movie would have been a total flop. Without caring about the characters, the audience does not get emotionally involved and therefore the ending really means nothing at all. "Titanic" would have never been as successful without the fictional characters that the film followed. And that other WWII movie, you know, "Saving Private Ryan"...how much of that plot was factual? This is a great film, just as good as that other WWII movie and is on my DVD to buy list when it is released. Definitely give this a view if you havent already. Thank you and have a nice day :D