Bad film

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2001)

The movie took the Titanic approach of throwing in a very cheesy love story into a film that should have had a historical obligation to do better. The movie goes to Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie should have never done this and stopped after the Japanese attack, unless of course the movie would have gone all the way to us dropping the atom bomb on a Japanese family that had been developed throughout the movie. But the makers didn't have enough balls for this.
Warning: The following discusses the end and may spoil the weak ending:
A particular funny part at the end is a plane goes down after Ben's plane, and there is a soldier in the glass gun turret on the bottom of the plane shooting Japs to save Ben Affleck. The soldier shoots that gun until the plane crashes, crushing the soldier. I'm sure his last thoughts were, "Well, I know I will die if I am in this turret when the plane crashes, but how else can Ben get back to his girlfriend if I don't shoot all the Japs." I especially liked how Ben Affleck kills about 30 Japs with his pistol in the end, and how Josh Hartnett was killed as a weak attempt to make the love story work out. Good special effects though, as Micheal Bay will always deliver.