Never mind the critics, professional or not. GO SEE IT!

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2001)

I really enjoyed the film. I would not have been happy to jump right to a battle where 3000 Americans got annihilated, then saw "The End" (roll credits) as so many people seem to have wanted the movie to be edited down to. I did care about the characters, and did want to know how things turned out for them afterward. It seems easy to see why the film extended beyond Dec 7th. Americans do not like war movies that end with us getting our butts kicked. We never have. That is American pride at it's best. I felt a real sense of patriotism when we went into Tokyo and showed the enemy that we were going to hit them where they lived. I'll definitely buy the DVD when it comes out.