By Craig Kennedy - February 13th, 2013; 12:01 am
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda. James Whitmore as Vice Adm. William F. Halsey, Jr.
Halsey: Bust me. Break me. Court-martial me. Draw and quarter me. If you think that they’re gonna send any one of my ships on convoy duty in the Atlantic… I tell you Kim, I think they’ve gone nuts back in Washington. Now, how in the hell am I supposed to fight a task force if they send my destroyers and my cruisers to the Atlantic? That damn ocean is a swimming hole compared to the Pacific!
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Ha! Love that Pacific/Atlantic swimming pool quip. Well, I don’t think this film for a host of reasons will ever be seen as a definitive Pearl Harbor movie, but the mediocre reviews that greated it back in the day are now seen as off the mark. This is a solid war film, despite some historical inacuracies, and it boats superlative visual effects, and a terrific score from one of film music’s masters, Jerry Goldsmith.
Not the greatest movie every, but it’s leaps and bounds above the travesty by Michael Bay. I think the historical inaccuracies are pretty negligible aren’t they involving mainly the look of certain ships and planes? Bay made worse mistakes years later with the full powers of CGI at his command.