Tora! Tora! Tora! Reviews
July 8, 2008
Both overall director Richard Fleischer and his Japanese counterparts do a dull job, and the monotonously low-key tone of scene after scene almost suggests that each was filmed without a sense of ultimate slotting in the finished form.
December 30, 2006
This big-budget, noble-but-dull account of the run up to Pearl Harbour is high on historical veracity but low on drama.
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| Original Score: 3/5
June 24, 2006
The climax, in particular, manages to be more than just a shoot-out, with Fleischer's intelligent direction generating a real feeling of chaos and apocalypse.
May 9, 2005
As history, it seems a fairly accurate account of what happened, although it never much bothers its head about why. As film art, it is nothing less than a $25-million irrelevancy.
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| Original Score: 2/5
October 23, 2004
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.
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| Original Score: 1/4
February 24, 2002
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
June 13, 2001
Displaying an uncharacteristic even-handedness for Hollywood, this Japanese-American production is certainly the epic equal of Pearl Harbor, while consistently maintaining an almost unimpeachable honesty with its dual perspectives.
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| Original Score: 4/5