Rating 4.0/10 All the Japanese had to do was to concentrate on Midway, overwhelm our inferior naval and air forces, and Hawaii and the West Coast would be wholly at their mercy.
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Epic war stories are difficult to tell without focusing on a few characters.
Account of Crucial Naval Battle in Emmerich Style, Hollywood actually made a decent war movie without pushing a political agenda, Can't get on board with the positive reviews, Both good and disappointing - depends on the target audience, Excellent Movie and Historically Accurate, With Great Expectations Comes Disappointment, Entertaining for 9 year olds... dull for the rest of us, A commendable effort but needs a longer directors cut - RELEASE IT PLEASE, A Solid War Movie That Puts Characters Over FX, I saw a few collar devices that weren't pinned on right (I'm talking about you, Layton! Filming & Production (as Nico De Castris), Buzz Davis (Sonar Tech Nautilus)
(uncredited), assistant hair stylist: Hawaii / assistant makeup artist: Hawaii, makeup artist: Hawaii (as Chantal Boomla), assistant hair stylist: Hawaii (as Melissa J. Medeiros) / assistant makeup artist: Hawaii (as Melissa J. Medeiros) / makeup artist: Hawaii, makeup department head: LA, additional photography, special makeup effects artist (as Jonathan Lavallee), makeup artist: Hawaii (as Melody N. Levy), assistant makeup artist (as Magalie Metivier), assistant hair dresser (as Marcelo Nestor Padovani), key makeup/Hawaii / makeup artist: Hawaii, hair stylist: Hawaii (as Arthur B. Wilson III), production manager: additional photography, additional second assistant director: Hawaii, art department coordinator - US Unit: Hawaii / art department coordinator, re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor, Re-Recording Mix Technician / Sound Editor, visual effects production support: Scanline VFX, editor: Pixomondo / visual effects editor: Pixomondo, visual effects production management: Scanline VFX, previz artist: Pixomondo / visual effects artist, generalist: Scanline VFX / visual effects, additional visual effects photography: Pixomondo, visual effects data wrangler: Hawaii Unit, compositing: Scanline VFX / digital compositor, animation director: Pixomondo / animation supervisor: Pixomondo, animation artist: Pixomondo / animator: Pixomondo, motion capture actor / production assistant: Pixomondo / visual effects production assistant: Pixomondo, compositor: Scanline VFX / digital compositor: ScanlineVFX, production controlling and accounting: Pixomondo, technical director: Pixomondo / visual effects technical director: Pixomondo, generalist: Scanline VFX / lighting artist: Scanline VFX, compositing: Scanline VFX / digital compositor: Scanline VFX, visual effects production coordinator: Zero VFX, generalist: Scanline VFX / senior cg generalist/lighting artist: Scanline VFX, compositing: Scanline VFX / digital compositor: scanlinevfx, layout artist: Scanline VFX / layout technical director: Scanline VFX, compositing: Scanline VFX / digital compositor: ScanlineVFX, nuke pipeline technical director: Pixomondo / pipeline technical director: Pixomondo, rigging lead: Pixomondo / rigging supervisor: Pixomondo, animator: Pixomondo (as Derek Kai Tik Fong), roto and paint lead: Scanline vfx / roto paint: Scanline VFX, digital matte painter / matte painter: Scanline VFX, visual effects associate producer: Pixomondo, concept and digital matte painter artist: Pixomondo, flowline: Scanline VFX / senior effects technical director: flowline senior artist, visual effects facility executives: Pixomondo, pipeline technical director: Scanline VFX, rigging lead: Scanline VFX / rigging: Scanline VFX, layout technical director: Scanline VFX / layout: Scanline VFX, visual effects production assistant: Pixomondo, visual effects technical support: Scanline VFX, visual effects executive producer: Pixomondo, visual effects division supervisor: Pixomondo, editor: Scanline VFX / visual effects editor: Scanline VFX, cg supervisor: ScanlineVFX / visual effects supervisor: Scanline VFX, compositor: Scanline VFX / lead compositor: ScanlineVFX, effects artist: ScanlineVFX / visual effects artist, visual effects coordinator / visual effects coordinator: Scanline VFX, senior visual effects coordinator: Scanline VFX, visual effects production manager: Pixomondo, matchmove artist: ScanlineVFX / matchmove lead: Scanline VFX, digital matte painter: Scanline VFX / matte painter, visual effects department coordinator: Pixomondo, layout: Scanline VFX / previs/layout artist: Scanline VFX, lead cg artist & lighting lead: Pixomondo, 3d generalist: ScanlineVFX / generalist: Scanline VFX, division VFX supervisor: Pixomondo / division visual effects supervisor: Pixomondo, Pipeline TD / pipeline developer: Scanline VFX, digital matte painter / digital matte painter: Scanline VFX, department production manager: Scanline VFX, fx artist: Scanline VFX / visual effects department supervisor: ScanlineVFX, Crowd Department Supervisor / On Set VFX Supervisor / On set visual effects supervisor / crowd artist: Scanline VFX / ncam operator, asset artist: Pixomondo / generalist: Scanline VFX, Compositor: Scanline VFX / compositor: Scanline VFX, compositor: Pixomondo / senior compositor: Pixomondo, previs supervisor / previsualization supervisor: Pixomondo, VFX supervisor: Pixomondo / visual effects supervisor: Pixomondo, visual effects supervisor (on-set: hawaii unit), FX artist: Pixomondo / fx artist: Pixomondo, digital environment supervisor / matte painter: Scanline VFX, VFX editor: Scanline VFX / editing: Scanline VFX, MM artist: Pixomondo / matchmove artist: Pixomondo, maya pipeline TD: Pixomondo / pipeline technical director: Pixomondo, layout artist: Scanline VFX / layout artist: ScanlineVFX, compositing: Scanline VFX / visual effects artist, recruiting and talent management: Pixomondo, senior layout technical director: Scanline VFX, generalist: Scanline VFX / visual effects artist, recruiting and human resources manager: Pixomondo, matte painter: Pixomondo / mattepainter: Pixomondo, Best Boy Electric: additional photography, digital video engineer: Additional Photography, post-production assistant (as Becky Bradshaw), additional editor / first assistant editor, transportation coordinator (as Beau Reed), physical production executive: additional photography, consultant: military, Battle of Midway veteran (as Sgt.
The only missing pieces to this movie, as noted by others, is the lack of US fighter planes. Release Dates The events of December 7th 1941 left an indelible mark on the psyche of America and became a date that truly has lived in infamy.
I have no idea why this movie was made. I didn't learn anything new there, but thought they were extremely well done. There is a lot of intensity throughout the film, and it shows how some of the decisions on both sides were truly a gamble in that time.