Two good things about this movie...

Rating: 4/10 (20 July 2002)

the battle scenes and music. This had the potential to be good, but why oh why did they throw in the dumbest, sappest, cheesyiest love story ever in a movie that was supposed to be about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Over half the movie was dedicated to the silly love triangle that was ripped off from some daytime soap opera. And Ben Affleck is terrible in this. But, maybe he seemed so bad because of the horrible dialogue he had to say like "not anxious to die, but anxious to matter." And Alec Baldwin had a bunch of cheesy lines too. And why was Cuba Gooding JR even in this. He didn't have much screen time and not much to do. So much could have been edited out to make this movie closer to 2 hours instead of 3. If they had done that, more people would have liked it.

FINAL VERDICT: About 40 minutes of bombing is decent to watch but the rest is trash. Faith Hill's song at the end is the best part.