Too Convenient, Predictable **May contain spoilers**

Rating: 5/10 (26 May 2001)

This is one of those movies where I can't decide whether or not I like it. I definitely don't think this is what people should see if they're looking for a historical account. Throughout the movie I kept on asking myself why it'e called Pearl Harbor. In the very long three hour duration, I'd estimate only about an hour, if that, is devoted to Pearl Harbor. The majority of it is a sappy love story. I'm definitely a person who loves sappy love stories, but this was just boring and predictable. I wanted Evelyn to die! There are many rules to live by in life and one of the most important is don't hook up with you dead best-friend's girlfriend, especially if it's in a war and you haven't seen the corpse with your own eyes! Everything in this movie is just too predictable and convenient. She just happens to find out she's pregnant the day he comes home. It also just seems like all decisions were rushed. The Japanese just kinda go, hey I think we need to bomb the U.S., let's attack Pearl Harbor. This movie should focus more on how these decisions came about and why. I highly doubt these are thinks people decide and act upon in the spur of the moment.
Basically this movie is a highly predictable love story interrupted by an hour of explosions! Worth seeing though.