A Tribute to Pearl Harbor

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It was very well done. It portrays him as one of the leading admirals that was against the involvement in the Tripartite Pact and anything that would lead to war with the US. The effects are good and I suppose the acting is good, although it's hard to be too critical of another language's acting. They didn't spend a great deal of time on re-enacting the battles, but followed more what was his reaction to them. For example, during the battle of Midway (which did have some great effects), Yamamoto and one of his subordinates played Go while they got the situation reports. (As an officer in the military I can understand this. For a senior leader like Yamamoto, your job is to make the overall call and the execution is not your job. This is akin to Eisenhower making the call to launch Op Overlord or not. Once the call was made, there's nothing that he has to do.) So in conclusion, good story, interesting characters, interesting look into Japan in the pre-war and mid-war years, good effects that weren't the raison d'être for the movie, and maybe even good acting! I say 2 thumbs up!