The Mercury Sunday Times More.
Political correctness meets the bottom line.
Or, as actor Ben Affleck told reporters at the Honolulu premiere, the message, rightly or wrongly, isn't about the US or Japan or the Second World War but just about how terrible war is. In this post-modern, deconstructionist age, it's apparently too confronting to acknowledge that it's actually possible to make judgments about right and wrong. Or perhaps the bottom-dollar prerogative makes those judgments even more risky. They have also quibbled about the absence of any actual Hawaiians from the cast, and the fact that none of those gallant US pilots is seen smoking a cigarette. This trend bodes well for future films with historical themes.