Don't let the Sunsets ruin what history the film does have in it.

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2002)

Now to enjoy stuff like this, YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHEN TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY! The attack is incredible and has lots of fireworks and the Arizona was done in all its sickening detail. You see the 2 football-feild long ship go up like a 50 cent firecracker and you KNOW 1,117 men just went out into eternity (which is so much worse when you think that many weren't even saved!) The only event I can think of that was worse is what happened 14 months ago, 14 days before my 17th birthday in September, 2001.
Now the film would be utterly beautiful if it could back up the FX with a good solid, based on history, PLOT. Unfortunately, Micheal was so mesmorized by the Sunsets that he forgot. The Battle over England was so realistic, I wish a whole film about 8th Air Force would come out that looked like that! Speaking of bombing raids, this film also covers the Doolittle Raid, and I can't find ANY inaccurracies in that part of the film, SO if you have a DVD of it you can just watch those parts (And they are worth the money in themselves).
NOW, I love computer games and my favorite is World War 2 Fighters. I first saw this in a theater and seeing those P-40's take down enemy Zekes; well, it felt the same way as the game, (AND IF YOU'VE PLAYED WW2 FIGHTERS YOU KNOW THAT IS A GOOD THING!). So watch the first 5 minutes, fast foward 20 minutes, then another hour and 5 , and finally another hour to see the worthwhile stuff. I won't even start talking about the real plot. From reading others' comments, I think that's been covered.