More accurately: the Doolittle Raid (dvd)

Rating: 4/10 (14 July 2011)

I know this sounds less commercial than "Pearl Harbor" but it's the truth:
the climatic attack happens well before the end of the movie and after it, there is still more than one hour of movie. Thus, this last part turns the movie from classic to average because it's dull. Roosevelt looks like the penguin and his drama told with too much emphasis! The wonderful character we have met so far turn into wrecks: the soldier Betty saves actually operates in this top-secret mission; Worst: imagine that Rafe wait the death of his best friend to tell him he's a father! When you are called into a suicide mission and if you have heart, you tell the truth as soon as possible to motive your partner.
So, for me, the movie ends with Pearl Harbor and i must say it's a good one so far. The 40's are recreated like a shiny world and the Japanese aren't seen as inferiors. The romance isn't extraordinary but is rather excellently served by the cast. The movie sounds right when you see the hundreds of Japanese planes fly silently over Hawai, without any reaction from Americans. They were totally taken by surprise, the same way they were hit on 9/11. As the movie was released just before the event, i wonder how the audience have felt then. Unlike "Transformers" of the same Bay, the attack is well shot in the sense that you understand what happens on the screen.
In conclusion, as it's more a fiction, it would have been better to end the movie with Pearl Harbor and to resolve the plot at that day(and cut also the sequence of the dog rescued, worthless and stupid). Maybe it was too much for them!