Need to decide what the movie was

Rating: 6/10 (29 May 2001)

I wish they decided from the beginning what they wanted the movie to be, a love story set in WWII or a war movie with a love story sub-plot. If they could have just gone one way or the other, I think you would have had a great movie. There was no depth to the movie at all because of this. All we knew about any of the characters and the plot was very little - Japan is going to attack because the US stopped oil shipments, the US parked all the battleships in a row (how about telling why our carriers were not there), the two fly boys are friends and only want to fly and they both fall in love with nurse who fell in love with both of them. Thats it. I would rather have learned more about Cuba Gooding's character, or more about Doolittle, or more of the history behind the attack, more behind the US attempts to decipher the codes, more of anything!!! I could not feel for anything because I had no reason to feel. I think I will just buy the video, and edit out the love story and just watch the battles.