Review of Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) by Magnus W — 25 Jan 2008

Really fous on trying to be historically correct. Seen from todays knowledge, some points made my the movie are definitely still debated or incorrect. But still a descent version according to what I know. The japanese story also get descent amount of light.

The movie in itself was definitely a serious effort, the battle scenes appear quite realistic and are effectful. Somethings you really wonder how they did without getting the film crew killed. I think the largest problem is the ship models, they way to obvious.

Probably the biggest problem in the movie is that it is hard to build a really gripping story all the way through. There are points that are a bit slow but necessary.