It turns out there's some controversy over Tom Hanks' recent comments on the series. See Newsreal, "Tom Hanks: US Wanted to Annihilate the Japanese Because They Were ”Different”." There's a link there to Big Hollywood as well, which has more details. And more at Pundit & Pundette, "Tom Hanks on why we fought the Japanese."
Tom Hanks is a patriot. He's put enough chips in the hero bank to last for a long while. So I'll wait to watch the film before I hammer any of those involved in the production.
That said, there's a review at the Orlando Sentinel, "‘The Pacific’: HBO Miniseries is a Season High Point":
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg want to send you to war.
Go. It is worth enlisting in “The Pacific,” their stupendous miniseries that re-creates World War II with gut-wrenching power. The 10-part drama, a pinnacle of the TV season, starts at 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO.
“The Pacific” is not for the squeamish. The production plunges viewers into the mud, chaos and terror as Marines fight through hellish conditions at Peleliu, Okinawa and Iwo Jima. ”The Pacific” smashes war-movie cliches to explore the Marines’ sacrifices and challenges. The men bicker, cry and suffer.
“We’re all afraid, all of us,” an officer confides. “The man who isn’t scared out here is either a liar or dead.”
Anyone who has seen “Saving Private Ryan” knows the drill. Yet “The Pacific” deepens the experience by depicting the Marines’ lives after the war. ”The Pacific,” which cost $200 million to produce, surpasses ”Band of Brothers,” the Hanks-Spielberg miniseries about World War II in Europe
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