Somebody drop a bomb on this movie!

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2008)

I mean that literary when I say that Pearl Harbor is one of the worst war movies I've ever experienced despite a promising trailer where I would think some history could be stuck in my mind. What we end up is a schlock of a film that endures romance more than a lesson.
If there's a title that Ben Affleck should earn, it's "Why am i the sidekick that never catches a break?" since pointing him in a action movie or any movie with him in the top billing without the aid of good actor Matt Damon always fails in the end. He plays Rafe, a daredevil pilot who is best friends with Danny (Josh Hartnett) where they enter the air force together before they separate after Rafe is called into action by the British Air Force leaving his friend along with hot nurse Johnson (Kate Beckinsale) behind. The story then concentrates on Danny trying to comfort Nurse Johnson after reading a telegram stating that Rafe has died in battle where he falls in love with the nurse until seeing that his best friend has risen from the dead.
The real action doesn't take place until at least seventy minutes when the Japanese planes start attacking the ships at Pearl Harbor leaving some of the most memorable scenes in movie history despite the fact that this film is deemed as a chick flick.
Overall, a real extreme disappointment for those that were going to see a great war epic. Even the talent here is a waste with too many actors from Affleck, Hartnett, Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Dan Aykroyd, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jamie King, Jennifer Garner, Ewan Bremmer, Mako, Tom Sizemore, William Fitchner, Sara Rue, and many more good names that deserved better than this.