Offensive Garbage for the Masses

Rating: 2/10 (18 August 2001)

I have spent the last week trying to remember a worse film than this. I have failed miserably. This is the most appalling blend of patriotic nonsense, bad plot, weak dialog and hackneyed acting. The only reason I stayed in the theater after the first hour was that the first half was so poor, I thought that it had to get better. How wrong I was.
This offensive garbage is churned out by the studios only for the consumption of the corpulent, duncical US masses. The rest of the world groan at the patriotic hokum cooked up in the name of ticket sales. The story of Pearl Harbor is a fascinating one, with lots of tales of individual bravery, which could have been done completely differently, but unfortunately, turned up to be formulaic, jingoistic trash. When are the studios going to stop producing this polluting garbage? Only when the market disappears. When your average American Mickey-D eating Joe wises up and quits consuming this brain-dead tripe. Not for a long, long, time, then.