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After first watching this film when it originally came out, it still has wow factor. ‘A realistic wartime drama portraying the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the U.S. and Japanese perspectives’, it still entertains the modern audience by bringing historical facts into life. Well worth a viewing despite its over 3 hours length. It lacks the labeling of characters which takes away the understanding of events. However the storyline is brilliant and the actors despite well known for its time simply pay homage to the plot which is unusual. A Hollywood-Sino collaboration which is also a treat. Buy it or at least rent.

This movie is so much better than the Pearl Harbor movie Ben Affleck was in. However, when will this movie get upgraded to 4K and have all the subtitles scenes closed captioned?

Excellent movie right up to the end. The line the movie is famous for was never said.

The great Apple offers a movie that stops playing at 1:28:25 and will not resume - green screen!!!

A LOT of information (identifying subtitles) left out! Why does this happen?! It's a good movie but without knowing who everyone was in the story, it's kind of pointless. Fix it!!

...my only complaint is that this version is not the same as the original. At the beginning of the film, as each character is introduced, their name and title is supposed to be super-imposed on the screen to let viewers know who is who. Also, at various points of the movie, the place and/or date and time are supposed to be shown. Finally, at the very end of the movie, as Yamamoto is gazing out at the ocean, his comment about the "sleeping giant" is supposed to be shown again. Not sure why these things are missing, but I'm kinda sorry I bought this version for nostalgic reasons.Doesn't take away from the quality of the movie and such, but for me it was disappointing that those elements were not present, and I'm a bit disappointed at iTunes/Apple for not having the actual ORIGINAL movie available.

Will only play with quicktime. Won't play in Mac iTunes or Apple TV.

Very close to the actual history and with a fair presentation of the history from both sides. The performances are also excellent. The dedication to accuracy is refreshing, particularly when compared to such films as the Battle of the Bulge and Oliver Stone's JFK. This film actually lost money in the theaters but was very well received. As for the iTunes Extras, the history vs hollywood featurette is narrated by an obviously drunk Burt Reynolds, plus the video for the featurette was encoded by an amateur with the line order reversed (tiny horizontal lines seen in any fast moving elements). Regardless, this film should be required viewing in schools.

I have this on DVD, and I've seen it on TV many times. The version on iTunes is different than the version you'll see on TV or DVD. On the original version, all of the Japanese officers are identified with sub-titles so you know who they are. On the iTunes version, all of these identification sub-titles are removed, so you have no idea who's who. So unless you've seen it on TV, it's hard to figure out who the officers are. Somebody decided to "improve" the original and removed all of the identification sub-titles. Throughout the movie, english sub-titles are there so you can understand what the Japanese are saying, you just don't know who's saying it. Other than that, it's the same as the original. Disappointing though that the sub-titles are removed identifying the Japanese officers, as well as the US officials. The movie itself I give 5 stars, this version, 3. Get it on DVD if you can, it's better. (I bought on iTunes, so I can watch while on the go, and not have to lug DVDs around.)

Still a wonderful movie. I recommend it to everyone. Accurate as all get out. Love it! Would be nice if iTunes offered the full 4 hour version.