Shouldn't this movie have been ABOUT Pearl Harbor?

Rating: Null/10 (9 December 2001)

When I first saw the trailers for this movie I thought it was probably going to be great. It looked like a Saving Private Ryan level movie about Pearl Harbor rather than the Normandy invasion. Boy was I wrong. In a 3 hour movie we have about 40 minutes dealing with the attack. O.K. I wasn't expecting one long battle scene but the actual battle is the only part that has ANYTHING to do with the attack at all. Except for the American attack at the end, the rest of the movie is just a love story/romance novel. Simply as a movie it really wasn't bad at all. The problem is that if you title your movie "Pearl Harbor" you might want to actually deal with Pearl Harbor. This movie was merely SET in Pearl Harbor.