Special effects garbage

Rating: 1/10 (5 March 2005)

Terrible,terrible movie.Insipid love story,wooden acting and phony looking special effects.The Japanese planes look like something out of a video game buzzing around the battleships.See Tora,Tora,Tora for a accurate account of the battle with realistic special effects,superior in every way even being made thirty years earlier.It seems sometimes scale model battleships look better than inept digital ones.Our hero,Ben Affleck goes from a sinking Spitfire in the English channel to Pearl Harbor and then manages to fly in the Doolittle mission.How could we have won the war without him?Alec Baldwin does bear a resemblance to Jimmy Doolittle,at least his face.