The event itself wasn't compelling enough?

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2002)

This ode to James Cameron's notion that every historical drama must have an overblown romance in tow is beyond belief. Way over the top. I was getting depressed listening to the dirge of a soundtrack from another room--and the attack was still half the movie away. Admittedly, there are some nice action shots, but even these often exceed the bounds of possible reality.
As to the loose morality that Hollywood is so caught up in that it can't help but inject it into every film, a quote from one of the real nurses who was present at the December 7th, "Well, they got some of it right, but we weren't sluts."