Realistically effective

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2001)

Pearl Harbor is one of the better movies Hollywood has produced recently. It successfully evokes a wide range of emotions, while taking us back to that infamous day, December 7, 1941. This film induces feelings of passion, vengeance and patriotism in audiences as it portrays scenes involving action, drama, love and even some tasteful humor. It fits many a description of the essence of cinema; the entire movie is outlined principally by sex and violence. These images, however, penetrate the audience with real meaning, contrary to the shallowness some movies guided by sex and violence tend to evoke. The fact that this movie is based on an actual event in American history significantly contributes to the profound impact it has on audiences.