A disgrace to war films

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 2004)

I only saw this film once. It was on opening day back in 2001 when it first opened. I remember going with my entire family. We were all pretty excited about it.
Let me just say, I have never been so freakin' bored out of my mind. I felt like with the success of Titanic, that Bay was trying to re-manipulate the idea of incorporating a teeny bopper love story into a major disaster in history. Although, Cameron did a hell of a lot better job in Titanic.
Affleck is a great actor who always gets typecasts. He's always put in the wrong roles and this certainly is not helping him out. Josh Hartnett is also an underrated actor, but he is just so freakin' sloppy in this movie.
The attack scene on Pearl harbor, the 45 minutes of the movie that actually make the movie title somewhat make sense (I think they should have stuck with the original title, Tennasse or whatever) is one of the most poorly filmed war scenes I have ever seen. Smudging lenses to cover up blood to make sure of a PG-13 rating. It's just hack film making that Michael Bay is making so popular these days.
The bombing raids in the end, the crashing in china, this to me doesn't seem like "Pearl Habor". To me, this is history slapped together into one giant mess only to confuse teenagers more on history events. Worrying more about ticket sales rather than art and actually somewhat educating people. I remember my ex-girlfriend, God bless her mind, actually thought Pearl harbor was a war in Alaska with the French...yeah, anyway, enough said on that.
If you want to see a film about Pearl Harbor that is much better. Please, do yourself a favor and watch Tora! Tora! Tora!