recommend it

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2001)

I highly recommend this movie. Yes the final third could probably be another movie. Yes, it has a love story involved but so what? I also recommend "Tora Tora Tora" for a straight telling without the love story but who cares? The visuals are awesome, the terror although was much worse. For those that weren`t there, I recommend reading "Remembering Pearl Harbor" edited by Robert S. La Forte and Ronald E. Marcello beforehand if possible. The book is strictly true accounts of those that were there at the time of the attack. There you will read of the true horror of men dying in boiling seas of oil, their skin and limbs coming off like a boiled chicken, there you will read of the Japanese pilots flying over grinning and waving at the Americans as they killed them. It`s only just a movie and a visually striking movie when it comes to the combat scenes but as history it is unfortunatly probably the only history young people will be exposed to so for that reason alone I recommend it highly. Go see it! And when you do, do some thinking in the days afterward of the slaughter that happened there and appreciate what our fathers and grandfathers had thrust upon them when they were only 18 years old, give or take a few...