First off, don't be fooled. This is NOT a Tommy Lee Jones movie. It feels like he was cast as General Douglas MacArthur to try and gain some box office draw. The real main character is another general, played flatly by Matthew Foxx. Foxx's character is tasked with finding remaining war criminals after Japan surrenders at the end of WWII.
The most glaring and immediate problem with this movie is the attempted equalization between the tragedies of what happened to Americas and the tragedies of what happened to the Japanese. Had the Japanese not first attacked Pearl Harbor, they would not have received the retaliatory response of the United States and the Allied forces. The parallel comparison this movie attempts to make is insulting and pedantic.
The most glaring and immediate problem with this movie is the attempted equalization between the tragedies of what happened to Americas and the tragedies of what happened to the Japanese. Had the Japanese not first attacked Pearl Harbor, they would not have received the retaliatory response of the United States and the Allied forces. The parallel comparison this movie attempts to make is insulting and pedantic.