Surprised by the reviews (40% on RT). Pacing was great and offered an abundance of drama. Subsequent to seeing read through historical accounts and was pleased to see that the movie stayed on track with the actual events and did not take a lot of creative liberties.
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shareIt was very well done. I was surprised.
shareIt was a lot better than the melodramatic Pearl Harbour. I liked the way it showed how the guys literally just got back from hell and then had to go back up again to try and take out that last Japanese carrier.
shareIt took a shit ton of liberties.
Your post only indicates your lack of knowledge with which to adequately judge the film.
The individual actors and their characters were all well done.
But ALL of the combat action itself was PURE HOLLYWOOD BULLSHIT.
and the film itself perpetuated several myths and falsehoods. From Yamamoto's fictional "sleeping giant" quote...
to Fuchida's mythological 3rd wave...
To the notion that swapping out the strike planes from attacking midway to attacking the carriers is what delayed them and got them caught unprepared.
It wasn't. It was the almost continuous attacks that kept the Jap flight decks busy rearming and refueling the CAP fighters that prevented them from spotting the strike planes from the hanger to the flight deck.
Fuchida completely invented from whole cloth the very idea of a third strike. The film actually doubles down on stupid by having Minoru Genda speaking with Admiral Yamamoto saying he urged Nagumo to send a third strike and then asking when Nagumo would be fired. It was Fuchida who claimed he urged Nagumo, and he never did. Genda was present and has actually denied Fuchida ever did any such thing. So the film had Genda doing what another claimed and which Genda denied even the other ever did.
And The sleeping giant quote was made up for the film Tora Tora Tora, which was so accurate in many respects that most people have assumed the quote was real.
And as far as the air combat action, I have never seen a more ridiculous and unrealistic bullshit portrayal of air combat since that idiotic shoot down scene in Behind Enemy Lines, or that other abomination if a real event film by Michael Bay... Pearl Harbor.
If you thought the film was accurate, you only prove Dunning and Kruger are correct. You don't have a foundation to judge what is accurate.
Thanks. So far, I've been able to make it 22 minutes through this turkey, and that was today. There's so much stupidity in it that I can't take it.
Ed Skrein should have gotten enough fiber for the rest of his life the way he chewed the scenery. Any pilot with that attitude would have found himself on the beach.
Sad that actual history of a war isn't enough to make it to film; they have to enhance it to make it "real" to the writers.
..Joe