It was just awful and I just couldn't get into it

Rating: 1/10 (21 April 2002)

I know that there are some "Pearl Harbor" fans, and I'm sorry but to be honest this movie is just trash. It seemed to me that the director just wanted to have a huge action movie and lost all the details that this event really happened. They just added a huge love story in it that wasn't memorable and also that they were trying to make another "Titanic". I was looking forward to this movie when it came out, because I had studied World War II religiously and I couldn't believe this monstrosity of a film.
Ben and Josh play Rafe and Danny, two American boys who grew up together and are in the army. Rafe seems to just be in love with America and one girl, Evelyn played by Kate, she's a nurse who helps Ben get back to health after a certain mishap with his nose. They have a romance, but when it comes time for Rafe to choose between his country and his love, which does he pick? You just guess. But when an accident happens in England where Rafe is, they assume him dead and send Eve the message of his death. She and Danny then become real close through this lose and you guess it! They get down and dirty! Rafe comes back though expecting everything to be the same as before. Shock! Eve is pregnant with Danny's baby; but that's the least of their problems when the evil Japenese are thinking about bombing an unexpecting army base, Pearl Harbor.
The movie then just turns into nothing but action and makes the audience forget that this was real. I didn't feel a connection between Ben and Josh. If could actors just look more like they hate each other or didn't enjoy working together. Kate has a good performance, but unfortunately is not supported well by the other actors. The Japenese are made out to be total villains, even though what they did was wrong, but the movie might as well just should made them into those villains from the old James Bond flicks. The movie just doesn't work and doesn't deserve respect in any way historically.
1/10