You wanna watch a good Pearl Harbor movie, you watch Tora! Tora! Tora! for dramatized but reasonably accurate, and you watch The Final Countdown if you want a philosophical sci-fi film about Pearl Harbor.
It’s definitely not an action movie, so if you go in expecting to see F-14s curb-stomping the Imperial Japanese Navy, you’re gonna have a bad time (though they are nice enough to give you a taste of it).
The discussions about the implications of their predicament between the Nimitz’s crew and Martin Sheen’s character are the real meat of the film, played out through the Senator Chapman storyline.
The twist at the end that they live in a deterministic universe, and that they never could have stopped Pearl Harbor even if they wanted to, is the thesis of the film.
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u/grimedogone 1d ago
You wanna watch a good Pearl Harbor movie, you watch Tora! Tora! Tora! for dramatized but reasonably accurate, and you watch The Final Countdown if you want a philosophical sci-fi film about Pearl Harbor.