Special effects needed work

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2003)

A good film in terms of story content and the special effects were superb but with severe shortcomings in one area. Great effort was made in digitally erasing modern buildings surrounding Pearl Harbor and creating battleship row. But the effort fell short, if nonexistent with all other ships in the harbor and the aircraft carriers. They all were unmistakably of modern vintage and I was curious how modern supercarriers with the canted flight decks, enclosed bows, and lack of the large stack that was well pronounced in the Lexington and Yorktown class carriers could exist in 1941. I was not born until after the war but anyone with even the slightest knowledge of Naval ships, from old movies or photographs, would not have been fooled. A relative who served aboard 3 carriers during the war including the most famous of all, USS Enterprise CV6, for 26 months told me he was completely unimpressed.