how many clichés can you fit into one war? brace yourself for some painful viewing

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2005)

wow--millions of dollars spent, beautifully exposed film, to be sure, but what inhumanity-- the plot--the dialogue!
I detest implausibility in a movie; it's insulting. this was an incredibly important moment in US history, and these people have cheapened it forever by misrepresenting it to us as this mish-mash. in this day and age, I'm sure many will walk away thinking they actually saw some history here.
from the get-go: kids playing in a plane manage to start it up, open the throttle and get airborne, then touch down safely a few seconds later even though they can't reach the pedals or for that matter know how to fly....yeahhhh, right
then the father of one of the kids gets bushwacked by a 10 year old with a 2x4...yeah, sure
how do people sit through this kind of stuff?
and so it goes....pilots play "chicken" directly over the control tower, and pilot steals a police boat for a romantic cruise, and well, I just can't go on, because almost every single doggone scene is implausible in some way or another.
and of course, even though this SHOULD be a rah-rah America movie, we have your typical Hollywood liberal poison stirred into the mix:
"adolf Hitler builds the German military machine and drags all of europe into war"
bad old Germans! after the US came and saved France from the FIRST world war, France put such onerous demands for reparations on the Germans that Hitler was able to use their snubbing to motivate the Germans to rebuild... and as he violated the treaty and armed himself at a frenetic pace, France and england were too cowardly to make a stand before the situation reached critical mass....despite all of churchill's warnings.
"even while France falls to Hitler America refuses to join the fighting..."
oh yeah.....WE'RE the bad guys, remember? we can all give thanks that very few french actually died, since they simply surrendered to the Germans rather than fight. gee, wonder how they'll perform when they have a Muslim majority? (or even a more sizable minority...)
and so it goes....
the Japanese put ships in a wading pool to lay out their plans? I think somebody watched Chinatown one too many times
skinny black guy boxes much bigger white guy--gee, wonder who'll win?
ben affleck dies? YAAAYYY!!! SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS!!! no, wait, this is too good to be true! he will survive--he's really lost at sea, ya see, and... and SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!! I'll just bet he will show up when the battle starts to save the day.....BRILLIANT!!! (so I know it's a spoiler, but I'm writing this while watching and doubt if I'll make it to when this really happens....but sadly, I KNOW it will.)
the Japanese don't really want to go to war, after all! no mention of imperial conquest, their abuses of occupied populations, no the generals are very philosophic about the whole thing... okay, I've had enough!