The critics are out to lunch

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2001)

This was a great film; obviously a different film than the one that most of the critics saw. Yes, it was very similar to Titanic in terms of scale, theme, and structure, but I felt that this was the superior film. The performances aren't subtle, but they evoke the era beautifully. When the inevitable assault begins, you know the kind of people that populated the 1940's because of the work that Affleck, Gooding, Baldwin, Hartnett, King, and Beckinsale have done. I'm sure that all of the flyboys and Navy nurses who served in Hawaii in 1941 were not as impossibly gorgeous as Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, and Josh Hartnett -- but at some point, you gotta lighten up; it's only a movie.