A Film that will live in infamy !!

Rating: 1/10 (8 April 2007)

I'm sure that 'summary' has been used many times before to comment on this movie... I was dragged to see (during it's actual run time in the theaters) it by a naive girl. Being a history buff, who has studied the war in great detail (including the attack on Perl Harbor, and the Doolittle raid on Japan), I sat through the entire film with either the look of in-credulousness on my face, or in a fit of laughter (which would have appeared to be inappropriate for any other film dealing with these subjects. Having been born on Long Island, and visited the Mitchell Field area many times (just south of Roosevelt Field where Lindberg took off from) I began my laughing fits at the site of California hills and a modern garbage incinerator in the opening moments of the movie. The fits continued right through to the end of the film, where the 'fighter jocks' suddenly were able to fly B25's off of carrier decks, and had somehow gotten Browning machine guns installed in the nose (which wasn't implemented for another 2 years) and flew the planes like strafing fighters... Granted, almost all of the John Wayne films of the time were not much more than propaganda for the cause, but you wouldn't see anyone switching from PT boats to steering a battleship overnight either.. There should be an award for stupidity in motion pictures (though they might have to instill a 5-trophy limit for Mr. Bay) or institute a law prosecuting the lowering of intelligence of the American people through motion pictures...