A love triangle with the attack on Pearl Harbor as a backdrop.

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 2001)

This movie has wonderful special effects and great attention to detail. The love-triangle plot is a bit cloying and the movie is overlong. Although generally historically accurate, there is a considerable amount of poetic license. The anti-climactic Doolittle raid on Tokyo was contrived for the purpose of resolving the love triangle, and, no, fighter pilots were not tapped to participate in a bomber raid. This segment is presented better and more accurately in "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and Spencer Tracy is a much better Doolittle than the self absorbed Alec Baldwin. Still it is worth a watch and it is a wonderful feel good movie.