Thank God I didn't pay for this!

Rating: 2/10 (15 June 2001)

The only good thing about tonight was that I was given the tickets - I would have been so annoyed if I had actually paid to see this! Quite frankly, it is one of the worst (and longest) movies I can recall seeing. The characters are wooden and miss-cast (I generally love Jon Voight, but he sucks as Roosevelt). There is nothing about any of them that makes you give a damn about them. The dialogue is APPALLING - hackneyed, trite, predictable and extraordinarily dull. I can't recall having heard so many cliches except in a spoof! Oh - I nearly forgot the special effects - they were loud and colourful, but somehow they seemed a bit like "Star Wars" at sea, and were extraordinarily repetitive.
On top of all that, I thought it was NEVER going to end! (Yes, I could have left, but, being the eternal optimist, I kept hoping it might improve). I was really optimistic that it would end after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, but it dragged on for ages after that, with the skimpiest, and dullest, of "plots" to stretch it out.
All in all - a DREADFUL movie - 2/10
All in all