NOT A SUITABLE FRAMEWORK FOR A FIREWORK FEST

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2001)

It seems incredible that one of the most pivotal events in American history is used as a vehicle for a conventional love triangle story with half an hour of 'amazing' special effects. To see this on Armeggedon or Top Gun, both fiction, is one thing. To see this on a film relating to a real event I think dishonours the war dead, and this is before you take into account the slur that yet another piece of revisionist script portrays. It was bad enough that Hollywood chose to do it in films about the British (e.g. U-571) but it is amazing that even its own country's history is not safe. If the US filmgoing audience think this is a suitable vehicle for a pyrotecnic blockbuster extravaganza, I give up.