Passable entertainment to a point.

Rating: 5/10 (30 September 2005)

While I like certain aspects of this movie, it left me longing for Tora Tora Tora. Ben Afleck is a pretty boy and must make the feminine hearts throb, he isn't much of an actor. The acting overall was acceptable and the story was to if one could ignore the dumb romance plot. The absolutely worst part of this movie is the Dolittle Raid. It was totally unbelievable that two single engine fighter pilots would be chosen to fly twin engine bombers a few months after Pearl Harbor. Not only was this sequence unbelievable, it is unnecessary and anti-climatic. What idiot decided to add this to a movie. On the plus side, the attack sequences were quite good and seemed very realistic. The exception to this are the low level fighter scenes created by computer graphics. (The aircraft are flying much faster than they are actually capable of and seems to be an attempt to mimic the Star Wars land speeders on the forest moon.) Also in the plus column is the way the movie is split on the 2 DVD set. It ends with the aftermath of the attack where it should have. The DVD set also includes two documentaries that I found to be more interesting than the movie itself.