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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's rare for a feature film to attain the trifecta of entertaining, informing, and educating.
- 80IGNIGNWatching 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.
- 67The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe 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.
- 60Time OutTime OutThere'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.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe 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.
- 40The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyFrom 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.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTora! Tora! Tora! is one of the deadest, dullest blockbusters ever made.