An attack on the most blatant overly patriotic tripe ever made

Rating: 1/10 (9 July 2002)

I can't believe that I wasted 3 hours of my life watching this terrible propagandarist rubbish. Not only was it about an hour and a half too long but it is the most shamefully over-patriotic film i have ever seen. The American producers obviously couldn't bare to show an American loss so an American attack on Japan is tacked onto the end,lengthening the film and forcing me to endure even more pain. The script is terrible, changing from love story to goofy comedy to supposed drama. The biggest chunk of the budget had obviously been spent on special fx (which were the only plus point of the film) which is why the script was lacking and wooden actors were hired. By the end of the film I could tell that one of the leading males was going to die but i was so mind-numbingly bored i couldn't have cared about which one became worm food. Yet seeing as Ben Affleck wouldn't stay dead earlier in the movie and had been jilted it became more obvious that the other guy would croak. And what was that bit with Cuba Gooding Jr all about? He had no importance in the storyline and seemed to be there so that the movie could be sold by the names of those in it, even if there is no point in them being there. Pearl Harbor was obviously trying to emulate Titanic yet only goes on to be a lesson to future film-makers; Big-budget effects and pointless cameos do not make a good movie.
Pearl Harbor should be seen as in insult to those who lost their lives in the actual event.