Half Bad

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2001)

I saw only two hours worth, and by that time, I didn't care how it came out--neither the war nor that sappy romance. The actual bombing of Pearl Harbor (what most people would assume this film is about) was compelling, but all tension and horror was obliterated by the constant cutting away from history, in order to dwell upon that incredibly bad Hardy Boys response by Our Heroes.
Two touching moments, before I made my escape (I left right after that Date Which Will Live In Infamy): Cuba Gooding's brief moment with the dying captain of his ship; and the nurses facing the influx of an overwhelming number of casualties. The former was so unexpected, so brief and had so much humanity in it; and the latter would be a worthy subject for a film of its own, but instead was obscured by artsy "blurred" cinematography, to suggest confusion in lieu of dramatizing it.