A disgrace to "The Day Of Infamy"

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2001)

This is simply put, one more sad situation in which today's younger folk will come away with an extremely inaccurate and poorly displayed version of "The Day Which Will Live In Infamy". In an attempt to draw the young ladies, Bay fashions an ugly romantic triangle with not a wit of chemistry between Affleck, Hartnett & Beckinsale. The Pearl Harbor attack when it finally comes well into the film (with kids playing ball at 7:53 A.M.???) is so sterilized that it gives little credence to the horror suffered that day as amputated limbs piled up like cordwood at the local hospitals. The third act is added only to resolve the romantic entanglement and is so historically inaccurate that it would bring tears to my late friend, the heroic (then Colonel) General James Doolittle. There is nothing in this film to justify my investment of money, and more importantly a valuable three hours in which I could have done something constructive.