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- 1970
- G
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 24 m
- 1970
- G
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 24 m
Summary In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive strike on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
- 1970
- G
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 24 m
- 1970
- G
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 24 m
Tora! Tora! Tora!
46
7.9
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Summary In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive strike on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
46
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
Watching real planes crashing into real planes on a runway is flatout exciting, and the bombing sequence here is easily the equal of anything that Michael Bay could do.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.9
86% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Mixed
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7% Negative
1 Rating
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.9
86% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
7% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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The careful balancing of the two sides produces its own interesting effect, however, showing how war goes from possible to inevitable, whatever the wishes on either side. Had Tora! Tora! Tora! taken the notion a bit further, it might have created a portrait of escalating tension chilling enough to rival its carefully orchestrated climactic bombing raid.
The Japanese sneak attack that plunged the US into WW II is lavishly and fairly accurately, if not enthrallingly, brought to the screen in this Japanese-US coproduction.
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.
From the moment you read the ads for Tora! Tora! Tora! ("The Most Spectacular Film Ever Made!”), you are aware that you're in the presence of a film possessed by a lack of imagination so singular that it amounts to a death wish.
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Laurel Awards
• 2 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
