I didn't have to see it to know it was awful.

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2001)

It may seem unfair for one to review this movie without having seen it but the typical Hollywood hype has caused virtually all of us to have "experienced" this trashy film before it was even released. As an historian, I admit to being a harsh critic when it comes to making a movie about a real historic event. Tora Tora Tora was an excellent re-creation of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but this movie is grossly inaccurate. I find it amusing to read reviews of this movie. It was loved by younger viewers (aka the MTV/Brittney Spears generation)for its special effects but older viewers have trashed it for its silly dialogues and predictable love triangle. But what turned me off months before the movie was released to general audiences was the fact that Ben Affleck plays an American fighter pilot who gets into the air that day to take on hundreds of Japanese planes. How absurd!!!!!!! It is a well-documented fact that only two American fighter pilots, lieutenants Welsh and Taylor, managed to get into the air on December 7 and in their outclassed P-40s, managed to combine to shoot down seven Japanese planes. Taylor was wounded in his arm by .30mm slugs from a Zero. It is sacreligious to have any actor portray a fictional fighter pilot in such a well-documented event. Garbage as usual.