Barf bag, please

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2001)

Somebody bring me the head of Michael Bay... he did it again. A lot of directorial know-how, sense of action, awesome special effects, just like The Rock and Armageddon, and all the good stuff wasted again by epileptic filming and hysterical editing. Can't anybody make a steady shot these days? For decades directors didn't need to drown the audience in a kaleidoscope of shaky, jerky and out-of-focus images to convey a sense of rythm, and what films like Pearl Harbor convey is an urge to throw up and grab an aspirin, same as Gladiator, Private Ryan, etc... Spielberg's outrageously ill-deserved Oscar for Private Ryan's photography didn't do any good to filmmaking.
And the movie itself? Well, everything's been said already about the useless love triangle, and the lack of historical perspective of the script. So I'll just give one good advice : forget Pearl Harbor, and view Tora! Tora! Tora! instead.