A cartoon-like mistelling of history

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2018)

People these days are intellectually lazy and their understanding of history comes from movies, not from libraries. Pearl Harbor is not only inaccurate but it is an insult to those who died.
If this were 100% fiction it would be a great movie. The thing that ruins it for me (and others of my generation who had relatives that died there) is that the actors were like children playing dress-up, who were working for producers, a writer, and a director whose understanding of things was sophomoric, juvenile, and artificial. There was virtually no research done on life, fashion, and sensibilities of the people of that era. The BS of the two pilots was wildly disrespectful to the two real-life pilots who responded during the attack, and to then pretend that these two fictional fighter guys would suddenly be flying bombers is both stupid and disrespectful to the real Tokyo raiders. If you want to see a good film on Pearl Harbor, watch Tora Tora Tora. Not only does it represent the truth, but it also shows things from both the American and Japanese sides. The film Pearl Harbor is just a popcorn movie. I certainly hope that viewers do not take the wild departures from the truth to represent history, because it doesn't.