The script so poor and superficial, assumes to give sub stories but terribly unsuccesful (repetitively) in doing so, Pacific is a total waste of work and money. The score hence should have been much lover, but that is for the production effort only. Tom Hanks really should stop this war mania.

"Succeeds in giving a vivid impression of the nature of this theater's combat, creating a venue for both powerful emotions and thoughtful consideration of provocative questions..."

vivid and depressing miniseries recreation of key moments in ww2's pacific theater, shown from the allies POV

Overall, it's alright. The Peleliu airfield is probably the best directed sequence of the entire series, and the Sledge portions have some really good character development. The showering during the surprise 10 second rainstorm shot reminded me a lot of The Thin Red Line. Outside of that, though, it's really very average and forgettable. It pretends at being meditative and emotional and there is more entertainment to be found in the cheesy WW2 action flicks of the 70s.

Yes, Band of Brothers was way better.

Pretty good but it was no band of brother which was awesome.

Over-blown and disorganized. I say this a dedicated fan of "Band of Brothers", no HBO Miniseries has disappointed me more despite the craft and dedication put into the effort.

Only one episode was bad and all the others were good if not great. The development of Sledge's character was particularly remarkable, I loved his character transformation. My only complaints are Hanks narrating, the CGI wasn't good, and some of the night time fighting scenes were poorly done. It's not Band of Brothers quality but this is still well worth your time. And if nothing else, this is just a reminder of why everyone should never stop kissing America's ass.

The story doesn't feel coherent as it jumps from one character to another. The only director who has any skill in directing action scenes is Tony To, who's episode Peleliu Airfield is leaps and bounds above the rest. Every other action sequence is a mess of poorly edited insert shots. Still The Pacific manages to capture how unbelievably dreadful the Marine campaign against the Japanese was in WWII, though it's a pity it wasn't done with more competence. Definitely not Band of Brothers quality.

Big disappointment. The director had absolutely no clue what was going on. It's a mess of soldiers in a jungle or camp with occasionally some Japanese attacking. Now and then they throw some creepy animals in front of the camera (snakes or rats) to show it was really hard out there. The actors look like they couldn't be bothered to get out of their trailer and do some real acting on the set. Watching this I didn't have any empathy for the characters and couldn't care less if they survive or not.

There is great elements and the whole series oozes with quality, but war films is not me and nine hours of repetetive slaughering is insanely boring.

Its no 'Band of Brothers' and it lacks some needed coherency but its still an incredible mini-series. All the acting is wonderful and their characters development equally as good. The camera work makes it hard to look away as almost everything is shot with such finesse. Also worth noting is that on blu-ray this absolutely gorgeous.

best ww2 series I know

Only worth it for the incredible depiction of the battles.