Pearl Harbor

SpoilersTo borrow and paraphrase from that great orator and writer, Winston Churchill, 'Never in the annals of human endeavor have so many witnessed the butchering of history by so few.'I remember a story on a national morning TV news program... Read more at imdb.com

What a great film this could have been! The recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor is some of the best film-making ever - an extraordinary and moving sequence made utterly believable by state of the art special effects. It... Read more at imdb.com

Pearl Harbor is a monstrous, costly and utterly disrespectful abomination of film with pretensions of serious emotional weight and proper historical context. With the cost of the movie comparable to the damage costs of the actual Dec. 7, 1941, attack,... Read more at imdb.com

(Please excuse my French, it's probably wrong)Roll up, roll up! See the cinematic spectacle of 2001! See the horrible deaths of 2500 or so people commemorated by a film about two guys who fly fast planes really fast. See them... Read more at imdb.com

Ignoring the claims that this movie was so wonderful because Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are "so-o-o-o-o hot," and that the "music was so-o-o-o good," I want to talk about all the historical inaccuracies about this movie. People get the... Read more at imdb.com

Oh dear, what a waste of time and money and more importantly, three hours of my life. Titanic with bombs, only take away James Cameron and any sign of talent, story, pacing and throw in historical inaccurancies, clichés and a... Read more at imdb.com

Pearl Harbor is a movie so spectacularly awful that it would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating. There hasn't been a big-budget re-enactment of the Pearl Harbor attack since Tora! Tora! Tora! in 1970, and, due to the utter... Read more at imdb.com

This bloated, overblown, tediously overlong, hilariously cheesy 'Titanic' wannabe showcases plenty of expertise in the visual effects department and nothing but laughable bombast everywhere else. 'Titanic' worked because James Cameron knew how to find the balance between fictional, old-fashioned cornball romance... Read more at imdb.com

Pearl Harbor is without a doubt the worst world war 2 film of the past decade! The plot was lackluster and unoriginal, the acting pathetic for the most part, and the history inaccurate.It seems to be more preoccupied with portraying... Read more at imdb.com

Pearl Harbor will appeal to many with its big names, its schmaltzy and contrived love story, its special effects for their own sake and its simplistic appeals to patriotism, morality and retaliatory violence. Yet the reality is that its just... Read more at imdb.com

Amazing special effects and plenty of time spent on this really make it work. Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) grow up as best buds in the fields of Tennessee. And yes, this scene is worth it all. ... Full Review

So much has been written about this movie before it even opens that it arrives on our shores with a great deal of advance publicity. This could be the fault of the script but it could also be the fact that they are both too annoyingly good looking to actually relate to. ... Full Review

But that's not to say that Pearl Harbor is a bad movie. The attack on Pearl Harbor is impressive with buzzing airplanes, vivid explosions of yellow and red balls of fire Real life heroes such as "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Full Review

The love story part of the film is passable, but not nearly as good as the battle scenes. There is also an interesting use of "documentary" footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The forte of this film is special effects. ... Full Review

The best that can be said about Pearl Harbor is that it isn't a shameful embarrassment to movie-making (think the U.S. Godzilla remake Pearl Harbor is the true modern blockbuster: it is harmlessly shallow, has lots of explosions, and is surprisingly earnest in its attempts to be politically correct, regardless of the true social climate of the era in which it takes place. ... Full Review

You know, I interviewed about 150 survivors, and when I asked them: "What was life like before December 7th?", their eyes would light up, and they said: "The ocean, the beach, the women, it was paradise, it was as far... ... Full Article

I remember most the music from the first of the theatrical trailers, because it suited the mood of what Pearl Harbor should have been. Pearl Harbor should have been about one of the darkest hours of american history, not some ... Full Article

Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (June 16, 2006) Was it a coincidence that this 2001 special edition of 1970's Tora!Tora!Tora! hit the shelves a mere 10 days before Michael Bay's massively hyped Pearl Harbor arrived on movie screens? ... Full Article

May 10, 2005 - Stax here with a special "Reel History" edition of The Stax Report!Today I'll be focusing on movies that are works of historical fiction. ... Full Article

December 7, 2004 - Stax here with a special "Pearl Harbor" edition of The Stax Report! Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on the U.S. fleet based in Hawaii, the "date which will live in infamy"... ... Full Article