Historical mess

Rating: 1/10 (19 November 2007)

Horrible film that has so many faults, it just isn't worth my time to list them all. By all means read the other reviews, as they give a good account of them. The Battle of Britain scenes had me shouting at the screen. Even if you put aside it is the wrong year! It was an insult, not least of all to the American volunteers who did serve in the war with Britain and were NOT part of the US military who at that point, did not consider Germany an enemy.
Why an event so significant as Pearl Harbour, wanted or needed the implausible and repeatedly inaccurate story line is beyond me. It was and is an important story to tell - the right way. Combine a script that would make a high school history teacher cringe, with an implausible love story and some of the worst acting I have seen in a while and you have a recipe for a movie that should never have made it to the screen.
Watch the twenty minutes of the actual raid. Discount the inaccuracies in it and then switch off the DVD player. The rest is pure drivel.