Yamato - Schlacht um Japan

I'd been searching for this film for ages and what a disappointment. It's not a bad film per se and the acting is great but I was looking for an out and out action war film. That is what the trailer made this appear to be to me, but alas little did I know the trailer I'd seen on Facebook is all the action and battle scenes from the entire film and you get all of that in the first 5 mins. After that it's more a thriller - it rolls back to the pre World War II years and Japans military armaments and ambitions of empire. Two competing military groups within the navies senior ranks are deciding on whether to build the biggest and best battleship in the world to date (first group) or an aircraft carrier (2nd Group led by Yamamoto who feels any future war at sea will be decided by aircraft and thus carriers will be the most important of naval vessels in any future war).

It's all about politics and trying to prove the other side wrong not only on whats best but on the true cost of the rival options. It plays well and is interesting but when I sat down I wanted an action war film and this is most certainly not that!