trivial and contrived

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2002)

I thought the film was going to be an improved version of the television film Tora, Tora, Tora. I found, however, a trivialized version of the same historical event with a weak, almost laughable, love story attempting to raise the interest of the viewer (without success in my case). Imagine a couple of pilots finding a couple of fighters not yet destroyed by the bombing, taking off and shooting down a number of Japanese planes, landing and on the way home shooting at a few more from a convenient anti-aircraft gun emplacement on route, then going to the aid of trapped sailors on the Arizona sinking in the harbour. And so on. Biggles and John Wayne would be proud of them.