Doomed to repeat it...

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2003)

To paraphrase, "Those who have not seen good WWII movies, are doomed to remake them". And worse, others, who have even less knowledge of WWII, history or even good WWII movies, will come and watch them. I gave this my lowest score ever to a movie because it could have been an important film. It was not even an entertaining film, and certainly not a well made film. There are dozens of truly fine films on this very subject, most of them well written, acted, directed and some of them, truly memorable and even great, by most critical standards. If there is any positive statement that I could make about any aspect of "Pearl Harbor" it would be that perhaps it might introduce an element of history about which some very young or uneducated viewers might not have known. Hopefully, once introduced to the concept of WWII as actual history, it might engage some to learn more. There are many WWII films, made either during that time or contemporary that put this movie to shame, as if it shouldn't be ashamed of itself already for countless reasons, among which might be writing, directing, special effects, continuity, casting, acting and writhing PC, just to name a few. That is all that I have to say about "Pearl Harbor" (the movie).