Atrocity!!

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2009)

I just don't understand why making this movie was necessary. It didn't bring back fond memories, awaken the spirits of Americans, portray events, words or persons accurately. It angered historians, Japanese people and mocked the services and personal of the times and the string of events was ridiculously over drawn, over played and utterly unbelievable.
It could have been so much more and was so much less. I could list the inaccuracies, but others have done so much of it already, what would be the point. The historical points of benefit from the moment in time were not even accounted for. The disaster led to a change in Naval warfare, IE, the Pacific War became a Carrier war. How many actual heroes of the times were poorly portrayed and confused as to their roles in life, war and times. It diminishes their contributions. The change in how we collected intelligence for the rest of the war. The real heroes, the 11 Dolittle crew men that died or were incarcerated for the war and how they perished. The incredible luck that the Japanese withdrew from the battle before inflicting incredible damage on fuel and dry dock facilities or caught our carriers returning to Pearl Harbor. Horrible, just Horrible.