There's a good movie in here.

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2002)

I can imagine what happened when it all got to the editing room. Instead of actually editing the film in to a fast paced war film; they decided to leave the other stuff in. I sat there fast-forwarding through the first hour or so until the Japan started to attack. That's when the movie became interesting. My view on it is that they tried to do too much. The Soap-Opera love story failed big-time and the beginning with 1923. If they would have cut out say half the movie then it would be much better. They should have just focused on the attack and the two main male characters. It should have ended with Roosevelt asking congress to declare war on the Axis.
Also with a $135 million dollar budget; couldn't they hire someone to clean up the script. I mean the dialogue was just plain awful. Lots of funny lines that weren't supposed to be funny.
Suppose they had an editor with some guts and made the film 100 minutes at the most. It wouldn't have been considered the flop that it was. It would be short, yes, but to the point. I can't understand anyone who didn't like the attack scenes. The attack stopped my MST3K-like remarks and actually had me interested in the film for a while. And that's where the movie is good. My suggestion is to get the DVD and go straight to the attack on Pearl Harbor; when the attack is done turn it off; the rest isn't worth watching.