Tora! Tora! Tora!
Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: September 23, 1970 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating. Read full review
80
IGNDevin Faraci
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. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
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. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
There's something of a soft shoe shuffle to avoid treading on national sensibilities. But the climax, in particular, manages to be more than just a shoot-out, with Fleischer's intelligent direction generating a real feeling of chaos and apocalypse. Read full review
50
TV Guide Magazine
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. Read full review
40
The New York TimesVincent Canby
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. Read full review
40
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
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. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made. Read full review
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