The film should have been named "Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid" instead

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2001)

THE MOVIE WAS WAY TOO LONG!!! It dragged on unnecessarily. I came in to see a film about Pearl Harbor, not Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid. If the film stopped with the Battle of Pearl Harbor, it would easily have been a very decent film! The special effects are entertaining. The first half of the film is well-written; the flow, though slow at times, is pretty good overall. There are also many comical moments that provides great comic relieve. However, after FDR's famous speech in Congress, the film begins a torturously slow and highly melodramatic fall. The Doolittle Raid is utterly unnecessary to the plot. All in all, the film dragged on, and it is sad that it dragged on, for the first part of the film was actually pretty decent.