In the 1930s after WW1, there are two camps among the commanding Japanese naval officer. One camp wants Japan to build a the largest and greatest battleship in the world aka Yamato and the second camp sees battleships as a relic of the past and the future of naval warfare are aircraft carriers.
Both camps submit their initial numbers and the estimated cost for the giant battleship is somehow lower than the aircraft carrier. Camp aircraft carriers suspects camp battleship of fudging their numbers and need to prove it. They enlist the help of Kai Tadashi, a university drop out who is supposed one of the smartest mathematicians in Japan to prove that the estimate of battleship is fake.
I normally like stories about people doing interesting work because I enjoy details of a job but The Great War of Archimedes is not a story with good details. Kai Tadashi's fetish is that he likes measuring everything including women and Hamabe Minami. To each his own but Kai spends the story measuring a battleship that is supposedly 2/3 smaller than Yamato plans because he does not have the actual plans of the Yamato to make and estimate.
I was very bored thinking what is so interesting about this story of a mathematician creating an estimate of a battleship where he does not have the actual plans? What details are there of this herculean endeavour that would make it worth watching like Fune wo Amu?
Nothing. Kai is just a super genius who can read all books on ship building in one night to come up with the perfect plans of Yamato based on some rough sketches. That is the whole freaking movie. Super genius pulls a rabbit out of thin air because he is super genius. Yawn. Do not watch.
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