Plagiarized and Trite

Rating: 2/10 (22 September 2006)

I admit I did not read every other member comment on this film. Nevertheless, I wanted to add my own and I hope I don't repeat what has already been said. After viewing this film on TV recently, I was left with the feeling that I had seen it all before.
Now I finally realized I have seen it before: Take part of the plot from "Suzy" (1936)man, presumed dead, reappears to find his woman married to another (who is a fighter pilot, by the way); add the bombing of Pearl Harbor from "From Here To Eternity" (1953); and then add the Doolittle bombing of Tokyo from "Thirty Seconds Over Toyko" (1944). Put it all together to make another film, and pretend that it's an original story.
OK, yes, some of it is historical, but I'm always amazed that filmmakers feel compelled to do again what has already been done, and then not do it very well, despite spending multi-millions of dollars.