It didn’t then and it doesn’t now. Wes Tooke’s screenplay never met a cliché it didn’t like. And it doesn’t matter how many name actors you throw into the mix. Look, it’s Woody Harrelson as Admiral Nimitz, the commander of the Pacific Fleet. And here’s Dennis Quaid as Vice Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, living up to his name. And there’s Aaron Eckhart as Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led a retaliatory raid on Tokyo for bombing Pearl Harbor.
There’s ample testosterone among the lesser luminaries as well. British actor Ed Skrein struggles manfully, not just with the role of real-life rebel flyboy, Lieutenant Richard “Dick” Best, but with the jarring Jersey accent he uses to play him. Best even has a tough wife and a cowboy attitude that won’t quit even when it puts him up in the face of Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky , who will later relent and say, “Men like Dick Best are the reason we’re gonna win this war.
In other areas, Emmerich should be cut some slack, starting with his fair representation of the Japanese side. In a prologue set in 1937, we see Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto trying to avoid the conflict he could see coming. He wasn’t the only one to see it. Patrick Wilson excels as U.S. intelligence officer Edwin T. Layton, who worked with a ragtag team of codebreakers to make sure our side would have the strategic advantage this time when the enemy struck.
You’d expect Emmerich to be in his wheelhouse staging the attacks from the air and sea. He even offers up the horrific sight of Japanese planes strafing Pearl Harbor as a prelude to the action on Midway. But repetition over two-and-a-half hours dulls the effect of what we are watching and whatever purpose there is in watching it. Emmerich can crack the whip on computer pixels like nobody’s business.
The golden age of war movies is long over, this doesn't shock me in the slightest
Seriously, who would be dumb enough to keep giving Emmerich money to make films?!
Surprise, another flag waving movie is garbage. File it in the same can as Battleship.
Ronald is possibly the worst director in cinema in our time. Everything since Independence Day has been total garbage
But it’s got a Jonas brother in it!
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