Most Awful Waste of Time Ever! *SPOILER ALERT*

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2001)

*SPOILER ALERT* Well, Michael Bay stepped in it again. After producing the stunningly boring HEAT, he moved on to slaughtering every single tragic/heroic feeling ever associated with Pearl Harbor. How anyone in their right mind can watch this film and feel it to be a romantic action movie is beyond me. It is about three hours too long, the romance is poorly written and quite trite to watch and the action sequences want to make you yawn and go home doing income tax returns instead.
From seeing the trailers I expected a movie about the events of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. A movie about the tragic loss, that was alas necessary to get the US off their collective ass and do their part in World War II (where Europe had already bled for two years). A movie about the event that awakened the slumbering Titan and in actualíty was a major turning point for WW2.
What did I get? A run-of-the-mill love triangle that didn't feel the least bit innovative or gave me any feeling of sympathy for the three "soap opera" leading characters. I just couldn't care less about their small problems, when young men and women were about to get their lives cut short in a tragic event or when the rest of Europe experienced far worse. This movie should not have been a Titanic rip-off. Love has its place, as always, but not soap opera one liners and boring repetitions of "I can never look at a sunset without thinking of you". Ewwww!
There was about 30 minutes of Pearl Harbour. Hallo! What was the rest of the movie supposed to be about? Apparently not about Pearl Harbor. This movie was merely set in some Americanized version of Hawaii, where apparently someone got killed in the short scene you missed because you took a sip from your soda.
I expected far more from Randall Wallace (of Braveheart fame) and something of Michael Bay (Armageddon was at least just that, a film about an Armageddon). What I got was nothing to do with WW2 or Pearl Harbor. It didn't honor the memory of the fallen, the heroes of WW2 or at least attmpt some modicum of historic relevance.
I sincerely hope noone watches this movie. Your money is better spent just throwing them out the window - at least they may be found by someone in need and nt just vanish into some producer's fat pockets.
1 out of ten (and ONLY because you cannot give a negative score).