• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 14, 2010
  • Season #: 1
The Pacific Image
  • Summary: Three marines are the protagonists in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's miniseries about the war in the Pacific that begins after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 32
  2. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. The Pacific never feels like anything less than a cohesive whole. It's really a remarkable piece of television. I know what I'm doing for the next 10 Sunday nights.
  2. Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    100
    It's a majestic, 10-part movie medal of honor for every person who ever put on a uniform because he believed he was one of the good guys.
  3. 60
    In its insistence on the chaos of battles and the confusion of downtime, the series also offers another "harsh reality," that these decent men are exploited by their faceless government, again and again. If this story is not explicit in the bloody surface of The Pacific, it is a persistent, distressing undercurrent.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. bobm
    8
    Not as good as band of brothers as the stroyline is alot more harder to follow in the pacific. War scenes done incredibly well again as you would expect really of hanks and speilzberg. The general idear of the history of the pacfic warfare is portaryed very well, however the lack of outstanding acting as portrayed in band of brothers and the amazing dialougue the characters had in terms of how they bonded and bounced off each other which the pacfic fails to supply. In conclusion the series is still a remarkable effort by HBO and a powerful drama as the war scenes are rightfully shown in gory detail in how the the pacific was thought and how the veterans are regarded as heroes in our eyes. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. meh
    5
    The Pacific is a ringing endorsement for meh. Not as riveting as its predecessor, Band of Brothers, but better than most war movies. Having to condense the entirety of the Pacific War into 10 episodes was too much in my opinion. Also, the jumping POV between the various characters made it difficult to follow. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. Not interesting at all. Characters are boring cliches. Fights are so dark and poorly displayed that you wont see anything. The different fights are barely connected by background personal stories that are soooooo booooooring. A politically correct vision of the war at the pacific. Close to nationalist propaganda. Expand
    • 2 of 4 users said yes

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