Pearl Harbor Bombed Again

Rating: 1/10 (3 December 2004)

What direction would the movie called Pearl Harbor take? How about the Battle of Britain? No? How about a sappy contrived romance? No? Let's hurry up and do Pearl Harbor then go to the aftermath of Pearl Harbor before we venture to the Doolittle Raid. But first let's do the Battle of Britain. This movie ran all over the place. Add poor lighting (many scenes were so dark it made me wonder if lightbulbs were new inventions in the 1940s) speechifying (Roosevelt standing up) poor script with a "duh" romantic triangle and you have a bomb. Did anyone notice that the machine guns were replaced by painted broomsticks before the Doolittle Raid? Then, in the dark, one of the B-25's managed to shoot up a squad of Japanese soldiers without hitting their own men while traveling over 200mph--with broom sticks! The attack on Pearl Harbor was well done and some of the shots of the Japanese carriers were very accurate (yes the islands were on the left side of those carriers) except the one shot of a modern US carrier. Also, they portrayed actual Japanese aircraft for the most part instead of T-6 Texan trainers like every other WW2 movie uses for both German and Japanese aircraft. But that was spoiled after these two guys, after fighting the Japanese in the air, gave blood then mustered enough energy to dig thru thick steel on the USS Oklahoma.
Watch Tora Tora Tora instead.