Y&R meets Admiral Yamamoto

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2002)

Given the generally ghastly reviews, I was prepared to hate this film. But I rather liked it. It's more of a love story than a war story. The special effects are outstanding. And the mood and feel of 1941 has been well captured. Negatives? Good as the effects may be, there are too many of them. I was wondering which was shorter, WW2 or the movie. Jon Voigt stinks as FDR. There is far too much shouting and yelling and too many war movie cliches. It's a three hour film which easily could have been trimmed to two. But overall, it's not anything as bad as the reviews have suggested. (Had an interesting thought while watching... Wonder if it had been shown on flights to Hawaii.)