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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.
1 July 1934, Toledo, Ohio, USA
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
March 10, 1928 in Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
14 January 1926, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1927, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 April 1898, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 July 1940, Seattle, Washington, USA
18 December 1915, The Bronx, New York, USA
1 September 1911, Iwate, Japan
March 31, 1918 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA
8 January 1912, Fukuoka, Japan
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.
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...
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
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.
May 15, 2012
Expensive but ultimately rather empty.
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.
December 29, 2011
The film looks gorgeous in HD, and remains the best Hollywood treatment of Pearl Harbor.
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.
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.
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.