in the words of Jake La Motta...WHY!?! WHY?!! WHY!?!?!

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2002)

Do you ever realize how even BAD films are good in a way? Think of Ed Wood and his modern day counterpart Lloyd Kaufman. These films are bad, but they don't try to be good, so they suceed at some level because the filmmakers liked them (and at least one or two other people.) PEARL HARBOR is not the worst film of all time, by all standards. It has cutting edge visual and sound effects, and was a minor box-office success. The extravagant DVD box set must have sold even more copies, which is shocking. Whereas TITANIC lacked a story, there were a few good performances and the FX were pretty damn good. PEARL HARBOR has the worst acting and the worst screenwplay I've ever seen in a big budget film. The destruction sequences would have been ten times as apalling if they weren't already used in TITANIC, and the cast is awful. Ben Affleck is not a very good actor. Neither is Josh Hartnett or Kate Beckinsale. Michael Bay is actually an excellent director, and a proven box-office staple. But that doesn't prevent this movie from being terrible, and inspiring a new generation of poor-quality cinema. F