Entertaining and very exciting

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2002)

This movie was brought up as a Summer movie. That is what I think hurt this movie. If this movie was made to get an R rating I think it would have been much better, but it was made for the wrong audience which hurt its' significance. If a more historical aspect was put into it, it might have been a better film. That said, it was still very entertaining. The love triangle subplot was a good plot to set up the attack on pearl harbor, but the historical information should have had a bigger role for the set up for the attack. The acting is really great in the film and has very entertaining characters which make us care about them. When the action starts it's incredible. ALl the explosions, all the pump up lines, make any guy excited when watching this film. The recreation of the attack is perfectly set up but the whole pump up lines that the characters say when there about to fight back ruin the dramatic affect of the film because it makes it too much fun to watch. In my opinion Michael Bay should not have directed this picture. A more experienced director like Ridley Scott or James Cameron should have made this because they would have done more justice to the attack and it might have garnered some big time awards. Overall it was a good job by Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer, who tired their best in making a big time epic but failed unfortunately.