Cinemagoers of the world! Rise up in arms against this dross!

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2002)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I wasted enough time going to see this steaming pile of crap so I don't want to waste even more by writing a very long comment on it's awfulness. Don't bother reading any more of this if you want to see it and be ... um ... 'surprised' by it's moronic plot 'twists'.
Anyway, on to a postmortem of a lumbering beast that is an insult to everybody who lost their lives in the raid.
Who wrote the screenplay? This has some of the worst dialogue I've heard since Titanic. Why is it so damn long? Three hours of this bum numbing, spirit sapping, inertia inducing, brain scraping mush is almost criminal.
And why does so much of it make so little sense? If a fighter plane crashes nose first into water at high speed surely the pilot would be so badly injured he would have a little trouble getting out? Oh, and if that wasn't stupid enough how about Affleck getting out of a bomber after it crash lands?
How about the fact that our two dunce heroes seem to be the only two servicemen on the island capable of helping out that afternoon. Need some blood? Drain these guys. Need to cut some sailors out a capsized ship? Ask these flyboys. Need to shoot down part of a task force that has been training for weeks to pull off this raid? Ask these two hungover sots.
And finally, of course, there's the small matter of Affleck not bothering to contact his girlfriend to let her know that he's actually alive. No, instead he just decided to ... um ... show up? This after a trip that probably took close to three weeks? (I'm not even going to go into his ridiculous refusal to spend the night with her before he left for England.)
>sigh< This is the kind of movie that should be deemed criminally stupid.