I had mixed emossions about this film. I was looking forward to watching a war movie on World War II, but was surprised with a wierd love story with a romantic war twist. I thought that the movie was a great illistation on how Washington DC and the Navy men at Pearl Harbor were not expecting an attack. The were sitiing ducks to start off with.
The movie started out in Tennessee. Two Tennessee boys were best friends. Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker dreamed about flying in Dog Fights. They couldn't stop thinking about flying for there country. As a child, Rafe allways looked after Danny. That would never change.
The movie jumps to present time in New York. Rafe and Danny are getting check ups for the Army. They were in the Army Air Corps. Things were join good. America was not involved in World War I, they were training, and Rafe was falling in love with Evelyn. She was a Navy nurse that Rave fell in love in first sight with. Things were going great with Rafe and Evelyn. Rafe is a great flyer. He volenteers to go in the war to help the Brittish. He says that he is to old to just keep training. Danny and Evelyn are relocated to Pearl Harbor.
Things will come back to normal once Rafe returns. He dies. That is what the military says. He infact survives a crash from a plane that was shot down in the ocean. Danny and Evelyn are crushed and morn for a while in Pearl Harbor. Time passes and Danny and Evelyn are reunited and go out a few times. Danny is ow in love with his best friends girl. Oh No!- this might be a problem.
The movie also shows how the Japanese ask for peace with the US and also plan a attack. The day before the Japanese attack. On December 6, 1941, Rafe comes to reunite with his girlfriend and best friend. Little do the boys know, Evelyn is pregnate with Danny's son. Drama happens when Rafe finds out what has happend when he was "dead". December 7, 1941, at date that will never will be forgoten, is the attack buy the Japanese. The movie shows the attack in great detail. Very educational. Rafe and Danny run to find planes. They get in them and shoot down 7 Japanese Plans. America delcares war.
Rafe and Danny get chosen to go on special assignments. They go where ever they are told. Evelyn explains everything to Rafe. Even how she is pregnate. Dany does not know. While flying off air craft carriers for the first time, Rafe and Dannny get in a big predicument with some Japanese. They do not land in China because they run out of fuel. Danny saves Rafe. Danny gets injured baddly. Rafe tells Danny, still is best friend that Evelyn is pregnate. Danny's last words after being told he is a father, is telling Rafe he is going to be a father.
The movie was ok. I didn't like the fact that the movie showed only 2 airplanes atacking the Japan planes after the bombings. There was obvious that there was more. I also didn't like the fact that the movie had a romantic war twist. America was attacked. That is more important than a conflict with 2 best friends and a girl. I did, however, like the fact that Rafe and Danny could work things out and still be the best flyers they could, save one another, and get alone like nothing happend.
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This is definitely a "date" movie.