Not all it's hyped up to be

Rating: 3/10 (31 May 2001)

Lots of good scenes when they actually get into the bombing and the Japanese point of view was also done fairly well. The horribly sappy love story really shot the film down. The character Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale) and the other nurse were not portrayed very well, women in the 40's didn't act like that. To improve the movie they should have completely ditched the love story along with Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett and stuck used the story of Doris 'Dorie' Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who was the most interesting and of the characters presented and one of the few who was a real person. Overall I'd say you might as well pass on this one it wasn't really worth seeing.