worth a watch

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2007)

To be honest, I'm quite surprised by how many people dislike this movie. Then again, whenever a blockbuster movie about a historical event comes out all people can ever talk about are the historical inaccuracies. I'll admit that I don't know much about what happened at Pearl Harbor, but what I do know was quite accurate in the movie. People act like movies like these are suppose 100% correct. If you want to watch a movie like that go pick up a documentary on Pearl Harbor instead of watching a movie that is obviously going to have some fiction in it to attract More people to watch it.
I enjoyed this film because it was shot excellently and the special effects were amazing. The main reason I watched it in the first place was because I heard about the dramatic romance (I am a chick after all), but even I thought it was a little cheesy. The writing in some of those scenes were a little over the top, as if anyone would ever say, "I'll never look at another sunset without thinking of you". I think, however that the love story brought more feeling to the movie. It made it seem more real, people that had loved ones were dying.
The movie might not be a number one in any aspect (writing, directing, acting), but I think it deserves a little more because for a blockbuster movie, it was pretty good. I mean, look at some of the crap that is being put on the big screen nowadays.