I plan on going to see this movie today.
I’m going either today or monday. My wife even wants to see it. I’m glad to hear they don’t have a sub plot dealing with a love story with a Jap internee. The battle from what I gather turned on an hour window where the Japs were most vulnerable to an air attack. Except for that, it could have turned out differently. Was that portrayed in the movie??
“I plan on going to see this movie today.”
This movie did a great job in its attention to detail. Watch at the start of the movie and look at Yamamoto’s left hand. It is missing two fingers as he lost it in the Russo-Japanese War. Then watch the sailors receiving medals in May 1942. For a second you can see a black sailor in line. That is Doris “Dorie” Miller receiving his medal for heroism on December 7.
I really enjoyed this movie. I highly recommend it. It was a straightforward patriotic movie. No Hollywood anti-Americanism that I could detect.