Cliched romance, poor continuity, badly scripted.

Rating: 1/10 (1 June 2001)

The script writers for this certainly are not original, the basic story of 2 lads from the same town going off to fight has been covered dozens of times in film history and they fall out because they both love the same woman is also hardly new and quite frankly has been done better in other movies. The soundtrack is piece after piece of irritating sentimental that grates on the ears(especially in the scene where hero has just told the girl he has voluntered to fly for the RAF).
I also cannot believe a film that cost $135 million contains so many continuity and technical errors. In one shot what is supposed to be the japanese fleet is clearly a modern US carrier battlegroup(look at the carrier, angled flight decks weren't invented till after the war), but the next time we saw the japanese fleet it was ww2 era carrier(surely they should have spotted this glaring continuity error especially it is also a technical error).
The film would have been semi-okay if it had ended after the attack on Pearl Harbour, but they had this awful tacked on bit with the 2 lads taking part in the B25 raid on tokyo launched from the carrier Shangri-La.
The only good thing was cuba gooding jnr's all too brief performance. I think overall this movie tried to be too many things and failed at all of them, if you want 2 men loving the same woman who loves them both try Casablanca, if you 2 young men going to war Try Gallipoli and if you want to see movie about the attack on pearl harbour watch Tora Tora Tora.