Watch it for the attack sequence

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2001)

Spoiler Alert
While watching this movie, I was mentally removing the background score, cutting scenes, etc to improve the film. As a documentary, this movie is an embarrassment. It might help to go into the theater with a background knowledge of the strategies employed by the Japanese, because all you will find out from the film is that wooden fins were added to the torpedoes and the carriers were in radio silence while crossing the Pacific. As a love story, it's frustratingly long, and hackneyed. The extraneous BS (the top gun scene) really irritates the viewer. The most intriguing character (played by C Gooding Jr) does nothing more than box, complain about being a cook, and shoot down a Japanese fighter during the attack. Despite all of the nonsense, the movie is worth seeing for the attack sequence alone. Unfortunately one of the two lovebirds doesn't die in the attack, so they threw in the Doolittle raid (I guess adding Midway was excessive) and fixed the threesome problem