Great action sequences destroyed by bad acting and even worse script!

Rating: 4/10 (25 September 2012)

This movie is almost an embarrassment to the legacy of the Pearl Harbor attack and the men and women who lost there lives that day, and through out the war. When I started watching this cheesy movie I thought someone had put the wrong DVD in the case, seriously. Michael Bay should be ashamed of himself for this one.
The action sequences were the only slightly redeeming quality of this movie. The script was atrocious. The acting even worse. I expect bad acting from Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett, but how did they get Kate Beckinsale to do a horrible job as well?
You would think after the success of a GREAT war movie like "Saving Private Ryan" that a director like Michael Bay would want to present a great movie, that stays a little close to history, and has some semblance of the real life and times of the people of that generation. Instead he gives us a cheesy puff piece that pretty much uses every cliché of the 1940's era, and doesn't even come close to resembling real life.
Let's face it, this was more like some horrible dime story novel romance, and bromance set against the backdrop of WWII. If you want to see a war movie either don't bother with this filth, or just fast forward to the attack sequence and watch that ONLY. It gets worse as they drag out this disaster to give a even worse bromance sequence loosely based on the Doolittle raid.
This movie is trash!