PEARL HARBOR (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2004)

Of course it was the movie everyone had to see, it was also one of the first movies that was used for the marketingtechnique that everyone should have a DVDplayer but what a waste of time, what a waste of talent, what a waste of movie in fact... The story is known, even your 12old year kid will know what the Japs did and so it couldn't have surprised at all, but still it did... The attack from the Japs belongs (just like the first 30 minutes of Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan") to the best what I ever saw in warmovies. Spectacular, frightening and with a rarely seen reality-factor. The speeches in the White House are good as well, the ones from the Japanese emperors as well but (and that's 2 hours) the lovestory sucked... It was boring, and it was a shame that they didn't opt to make a warmovie in historical style like "The longest day" as then it could perhaps have been the best warmovie ever but indeed we must see a dreadful lovestory...and why such a warevent is pointed out to two good pilots is beyond me, it's a slap in the face for all families who lost someone there. Typical example from how Hollywood can destroy good ideas.