Some Good some bad....5/10

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2002)

Some of the action scenes were well done, but I think the love triangle, the 2 guys fighting all of the Japanese planes, and the lack of what was really happening leading up to the attack is pathetic. If this were a fictitious attack, then this would have been a 7.5/10 movie. But this event deserves more respect than this. The cinematography was pretty good but the "top gun" like feel really destroyed this film. Do filmmakers really think the general public is that simple minded? I have nothing against movies like Armageddon and ID4 but movies like that should not be made about real, infamous events in history. The writers should have watched Saving Private Ryan before they wrote the script.