I greatly enjoyed the movie but I would have made a few improvements if given the chance.
— Kudos for mentioning Nagumo’s failure to bomb the fuel tanks at Pearl (or the dry docks). I thought the Pearl Harbor part of the movie was good.
— The raid on the Marshalls ... okay. Why was it included? I missed the connection to Midway.
— Doolittle Raid, just about the only positive news between Pearl and Midway. Good coverage.
— Battle of the Coral Sea ... we learned the Yorktown was damaged. Coral Sea is worth a full-length movie all by itself. But I don’t think Dennis Quaid was the best choice to play the cantankerous William “Bull” Halsey. Just my opinion.
— Midway. I don’t think the movie adequately portrayed the losses of men and machines in the opening phase of Midway. Our guys got wiped out, with nothing to show, until the dive-bombers made history. History knows the sub USS Nautilus only for delaying a Japanese destroyer, which means the sub got too much screen time.
Without that delayed destroyer hustling back to the fleet at just the right (wrong) time, the dive bombers don't find the fleet and do their thing ... The saw her, rightly guessed what she was up to, and followed.
It wuld be great to see full length movies about Doolittle and his Raiders and Chennault and his Tigers. These stories need to be introduced to new generations that know nothing of these American giants. I really don’t care if the Chicoms pay for it. They are just giving Hollywood our money back, anyway.