Bay/Bruckheimer do it again

Rating: 1/10 (23 March 2002)

Making a real WW2 event into James Cameron's 'Titanic' is something that only Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer can do.
A few points directed to the geniuses Bay/Bruckheimer:
1) Not all of us are children. Even the best visual effects cannot save an idiotic movie like this.
2) Making a movie with cliches like "If you are willing to take those risks, take one step forward" make people wonder if you are idiots, or if you believe that the whole public are idiots.
3) Movies are played all over the world. Presenting the American army as the savior of the planet IN EVERY MOVIE THAT YOU MAKE, is an insult to the rest of the nations of the world.
4) Jerry Bruckheimer should stop wasting money on Michael Bay projects. Michael Bay should go to a film school and learn a few directing principals.
OK, the movie contains the best battle scene of all time. But this was done by ILM (good job guys), after they received a huge check by Jerry. The plot and direction are the worst (as usual, since we're talking about a Michael Bay movie).
The first hour is the funniest movie of all time. Seriously, there are soap operas that are more believable than this crap. People are having a drink and the next day they are engaged! How can this ever happen? And if it ever did, why did this happen? No real emotional exploration is even attempted, to explain this children's story.
I was hoping that after his first films Michael Bay would have learned from his mistakes and would eventually come up with a movie that has some substance, or even some style. Not with this guy! Every important gesture or movement is emphasized with slow motion. Every time! Once more fast cuts are the order of the day, especially in the first part, which makes those stupidly fake emotional moments even harder to watch.
Finally American patriotism. You can't escape a Michael Bay movie without a dose of US patriotism! He turned one of the most embarrassing moments of the US military into victory! Maybe Pearl Harbor should end with a slow motion close-up of the A-Bomb, with a "Now you'll see" caption. How uplifting could that be!
Bay/Bruckheimer are obviously terribly rich, which means that they can buy all the acting talents and all the visual effects they need. But being people with no aesthetic sense at all, they can only create annoying garbage.