BrontÃ«'s say

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2001)

Some complain that this is just a romance with the bombing of Pearl Harbor as the backdrop, but I disagree. The romance fits in perfectly because any given soldier would probably have had a girl waiting for him back home (hence, the 1950's baby boom). It would almost be unrealistic to focus on individual WWII soldiers without a romance of some sort. I suppose that the film makers could have focused on the historical event without being too personal, but in so doing they would be leaving out an essential element of war, that the men and women who fight and die are real people like the rest of us.