Offensive, insensitive and bad dialogue too.

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2001)

Pearl Harbor is three hours long, and three hours stupid. I found it impossible not be offended by the movie, in part by its morals, and in part by its pathetic plot.
It is filled with wooden dialogue (the best being 'World War Two has just started!' - which might make a French, German, Italian, English, Polish, etc veteran wonder what he had been fighting in since 1939), and horrible moments of contrived comic relief. Such as a guy who has a stutter, which is obviously supposed to be something we can all laugh at. Like people with mental and physical disabilities perhaps.
Unfortunately, Pearl Harbor isn't just bad in terms of dialogue, acting, and romantic plot - it has a sour message. The attack was good because it let the U.S. join the war; the war was good because it allowed the U.S. to become strong and victorious and dominate the world. Japan's attack Pearl Harbor was sneaky and 'dastardly' - the U.S. attack on Tokyo was honorable.
The final voice over at the end was insensitive film making. A better ending would have been simply: 'Four years after the attack on Pearl Harbor which killed over 3,000 Americans, the U.S. dropped two atomic weapons upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing over 100,000 Japanese...' That would have been the 'honorable' thing to do.
If you have to watch this movie, watch it as an example of how awful movies can be, even with a budget this big.