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Tora! Tora! Tora!
The film retells of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history as well as the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
6 September 1916, Tokyo, Japan
6 April 1898, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 January 1926, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
18 December 1915, The Bronx, New York, USA
1 August 1920
29 August 1899, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
15 July 1910, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
February 8, 1924 in Tokyo, Japan
September 14, 1918 in New Jersey, USA
December 15, 2011
Strictly for history buffs only, because it presents the story in the most dry way possible. It's like a History Channel re-enactment with all of the right aircraft carriers and airplanes.
February 24, 2002
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
July 08, 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.
May 15, 2012
Expensive but ultimately rather empty.
May 09, 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.
May 15, 2012
The Japanese sneak attack that plunged the US into WW II is lavishly and fairly accurately, if not enthrallingly, brought to the screen.
July 28, 2015
Directors Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda have infused Tora! Tora! Tora! with an excessively dry and deliberate pace that results in an almost interminable first hour...
December 29, 2011
The film looks gorgeous in HD, and remains the best Hollywood treatment of Pearl Harbor.
October 23, 2004
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.
December 20, 2011
an interesting footnote in cinema history... though it's no less propaganda than the flag wavers from the 1940s
December 20, 2012
Prior to "Tora!" movies showing the attack were jingoistic propaganda; afterwards, the attack was an excuse to indulge in Hollywood's fascination with American self-loathing.
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.
