I liked the movie.
I did not like that they tried to make the Japanese sympathetic
and that they dedicated the movie to include the Japanese who fought at Midway.
Altho I would argue they *didn’t* attempt to make the Japanese completely sympathetic.
Japanese pilots were shown mowing down civilians in China and naval officers carried out cold-blooded executions of the two captured sailors via probably one of the worst ways to go - drowning
Yes at the end, I know, the dedication to American and Japanese sailors and pilots — but the actual depiction during the movie was that of a group of dedicated professional — and often brutal — Japanese military members
Hmmm.
They didn’t dedicate it to the Japanese who captured the American naval pilots who ditched during the Battle of Midway, tortured them for information, then bound them in chains and threw them over the side fully conscious while the crew looked on...did they?
I don’t mind recognizing that there were enemy personnel on all sides who were moral and compassionate when it was called for, because it is true that there were. I just have distaste for virtue signalling and accepting a moral equivalency.