Spectacular, Beautiful, Tragic, Moving, Memorable

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2009)

Overall, this is a superb movie. The plot is extremely moving as well as neatly put together. I suppose it could have been better if the director had chosen to end the movie at Pearl Harbor, the actual attack scene. Then again, maybe not. The ending was very tragic, which always makes a movie better. I HATE happy endings. The acting was great on all parts and dialog could have been improved in certain areas, but truthfully it was pretty good. What really needed work here is the cinematography. A couple scenes, such as the actual bombing scene and the one just before the bombing had excellent cinematography. Other than that, the camera angles were terrible. In up close fight scenes and dialogs the camera switched too fast and was not held steady. However, notice i still gave this movie an 8 out of 10, which means it has to be a pretty darn good movie to still be memorable enough, and have bad cinematography.