History is written by those who win war.

Rating: 2/10 (10 November 2001)

History is written by those who win war.
Keep that in mind when you're watching this film. It is a pity, because overall it is well directed, and the cinematography and acting is solid. Yet all way through the entire movie, I could not stop thinking "This is all wrong"!
This seems more like an american post war propaganda movie than what it is: A love story based in war time.
On a critical note, one might wonder why, in the american couterattack bombing, you don't see a single japanese casualty, yet pearl harbour doesn't hide any details. And the end monolog is thin as paper. A film as shallow as this one should not dare to make any retrospective political comments.
Unless you want to go through 3 hours of americanism as we saw it in ID4, don't watch it. It's painful to see how Hollywood bends the facts to make history 'pleasing' for their largest paying movie audience.