What a WASTE OF TIME!! Corny and STUPID - and bad History.

Rating: 1/10 (27 July 2001)

Disney sure blew it with this mess of a movie. Here I was hoping for another "Saving Private Ryan", but what I got was a brainless stupid plot, a corny insipid love story, and cliche after cliche followed by banal dialogue. What a BORE!
As for History, it was almost as bad. Sure the battle scenes were good with their nice digital FX, but they were only about ten minutes of the movie, not "forty minutes" as Disney claimed.
The rest of the History was a pro-Japanese whitewash. There was no mention of Japanese atrocities, war crimes, and aggression in Asia and especially in China. No mention by Disney of Japanese militarism and plans for expansion. This stupid movie didn't even tell us why the Americans cut off Japan's oil supply (their aggression), nor did the film mention that Japan and Nazi Germany were allies!!
Obviously, Disney aimed this movie at teeny boppers (the corny love story) and whitewashed Japanese abominations and crimes to keep ticket sales up in Japan.
I wouldn't even rent this on DVD again. It stunk.