In one word: dissapointment

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2003)

Tsk tsk tsk. What a miss.
Michael Bay had the chance to tell a great story, and do it in a magnificent way. instead, he tried to please everybody, or so it seems. The result is a mish-mash of historic facts, cinematic cliches and the worst of it: a corny story.
The on-screen love triangle between the leading characters doesn't work, and I'm not really sure what makes it so unbelievable. the competition is hard between the mediocre acting, the lame dialogue or the forcing of it on the historical story.
One point of bright light in this movie is the cinematography. Michael Bay certainly knows how to shoot sunsets and explosions. And there's plenty of both. Unfortunately for us, even the best scene in the movie, the actual attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot without any real flight, pun intended.
And I'm not even gonna start about the rhythm of the movie.
For wasting 3 hours of my life I'm never gonna get back, this movie receives a 5/10.