A movie that will "Live in Infamy"

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2001)

In all honesty, I am sure that this film might have been better on the big screen. But I was greatly disappointed in the special effects of that actual attack. I also felt the film was poorly edited with people and brief scenes that meant nothing to the total film tossed in as filler. A movie this long did not need filler.
I also wonder why Hollywood has this need to take tragic events and turn them into love stories. If it we my decisions, war movies would focus on the war. Yes, there can be love and compassion, but a movie about Pearl Harbor should spend more time on the events, tragedies and heroism of Pearl Harbor, not about a love triangle. "Saving Private Ryan" is an outstanding example of showing the emotions of war and evoking feelings whilst telling a war story.
Or, make the movie about a love triangle and find some minor battle to get in the way of the friendships without being the main event. Then you have time to develop a relationship between the characters and allow the audience to feel something with them and for them.
This movie was ala "Titanic", in the attempt to mix love and tragedy, but "Titanic" was even better able to succeed at mixing the two than "Pearl".