Horrible

Rating: 1/10 (1 August 2002)

This was in the top 5 for the worst movies i've ever seen. Fortunately I viewed it on a borrowed DVD because had I viewed it at a movie theater, I would've walked out and demanded my money back. You'd of thought from the movie "Midway" that they would've learned to omit a love story. Can you imagine a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" if they inserted a love story? What a hero that Ben Afleck is single handedly taking on the Germans and Japanese. First he's a fighter pilot then switches to bombers. He was there for it all. The Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. Did he drop the bomb on Hiroshima too?
I wasn't even impressed with the special effects. The attack looked like they were attacking the "Death Star" from Star Wars. So much was omitted like when there's a brief shot that was stuck in the storyline where Yamamoto says "I fear all we've done is awaken a sleeping giant" made no sense in this movie as to why he said it and why it was just stuck in as filler. If you want to watch a historically accurate movie about the attack on "Pearl Harbor" which had more realistic special effects, watch Tora, Tora, Tora and you'll even see at the end Yamamoto saying "I fear all we've done is awaken a sleeping giant....." and you'll know exactly why he said it.