Brukheimer Mis-Adventure is both good and terrible at the Same Time!

Rating: 8/10 (25 November 2015)

Always there is a stupid love story sub-plot, even in Titanic. Paradoxically, I can love a movie and hate it at the same time. Other cases in point are: "10 Commandments" and "GWTW" (inane story-lines and a depressingly bad 2nd half of GWTW). So it is here, also. A great Movie Blockbuster, with great digital efx, but a lot of technical and historical errors. E-2 aircraft in the background, (an anachronism) plus right-on recreations of famous newsreel footage, frame-for-frame. Switches color-timing-b/w all over the place. "Potboiler footage" with simulated sexual situations about fictional (?) heroes and sweethearts. Some really gripping action and dog-fighting but it's just too blasted long! I usually have to watch it in two sessions, which is the "beauty" of discs vs. tapes! Chapter selection helps also! Some directors don't know how to edit for time. Stanley K. and Jerry B. sure don't! Has 2 distinct endings, as it follows another famous epic warplane-battle, right after Pearl Harbor. That part is almost like watching an entire 2nd movie. It's nice, but unnecessary to the main story. Sometimes I end the movie there, just for that reason.