Who made this stuff up?

Rating: 1/10 (9 December 2003)

You'd think that in the decades since "Tora Tora Tora" (1970) and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944) that there was room for improvement, maybe a more personal story or a more historically accurate one. Instead comes this monstrosity, one of the worst war movies, or movies of any kind, I've ever seen. Not only does it take enormous license with the events at Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Britain and Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, but the plot centers on a hackneyed love-triangle plot that was worn out even in the 1940s. Even the highly touted "special effects" in this turkey look fake compared to the other films I've mentioned...this film belongs in a class with "Inchon".