Waste of time and money

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2001)

In one word, it's a very thin movie. It follows the story of two best friends and a girl who becomes their love interest. This movie tries to touch too many people's lives. It felt like a soap opera stretched three hours with a lot of explosives and computer graphics..... The movie seemed like it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be funny or serious. It's neither. I remember a scene where a ship was sinking and a sailor say he can't swim, and audience laughs. There was one line by a Japanese pilot explaining why he is ready to throw his life. What about the black cook, who never shot a gun before until the chaos of the bombing pushed him to become extra courageous? The captain of the boat says one line to him the whole life, and when he is about to die, the black cook talks to him and comes to his coffin after the bombing as if the captain was his best friend. What was up with all the "unnecessary" shots of the girl in Hawaiian background? The Japanese admiral's lines were so biased....towards US. Unbelievable. Just very thin, very hollow, Hollywood movie. Typical Bruckheimer movie. Unnecessarily long. Nothing close to an epic movie. It's pretty much a dumb movie. Don't waste three hours of your life on this.... Waste only two hours in other movies. :)