Terrible!

Rating: 3/10 (7 February 2003)

This is the worst historical drama I have ever seen. Actually there are very few historically accurate facts in the movie. It's essentially a trifling love-triangle romance with some action sequences. The Pearl Harbor attack is just a backdrop. The direction is horrible, the writing is horrible, and the acting is horrible. There are some interesting special effects, especially when the torpedo strikes USS Arizona, but who cares? With a title like "Pearl Harbor", I assumed this was supposed to be a picture about the horror and the heroes, about the event. Instead, it was a sappy love story between three fictional characters. If anything the special effects and melodrama just distracted the audience from the fact that real people actually died. This is a movie for people who know nothing about the harrowing events that took place on December 7, 1941 and don't care to find out.