Actually, I have second hand reviews from friends that went to see it...

It's not good. Best that I got was "Titanic with more ships being sunk". Personally, my experience watching "Titanic" was spent sincerely wishing I could temporarily remove my eyeballs until the horror on the screen was done, so I'll be avoiding it.

Everything else backs up the reviews cited above. One point brought up by Roger Ebert (and echoed by two personal reviews) was that for a movie about the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese are barely in it. And when they ARE in it, rather than exulting in one hell of an effective sneak attack, they mope around saying things about how they've 'awoken the sleeping giant'.

The one good thing I can say is the advertising campaign. Out here in CA, it takes the form of reworked WWII Allied propaganda posters. Clever use of less than 'correct' materials for advertising.

The moment I heard Michael Bay (somewhere in the directing staff) say that they were proud of the comparisons to 'Titanic', they lost me though. I've got much better things to spend money on than a special effects rehash.

M