It's only good if you're in it for the romance.

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2013)

As I do agree with the fact that this story is mainly based on a love triangle with 2 best friends and a girl, I still believe that the director (Micheal Bay) did a decent job on capturing the Pearl Harbor event.
The movie... has too many fillers in it. There's a lot of pointless scenes in the movie that should have been cut out, like a previous critic reviewer said "a 2 hour movie stretched into 3."
If you look at Micheal Bay's movies, they are all typically long movies... Titanic, Avatar, etc. Plus, Micheal Bay movies are also typically based around LOVE STORIES. If you looked at the cover of the movie where it says "Pearl Harbor" then "directed by Micheal Bay" you can't complain about the romance in the movie, because that's practically a given on almost any Micheal Bay movie.
Just like Titanic, it's a romance twisted around a real life event. The romance drama is actually very good and it keeps you locked into the movie. I really liked the situation of the love triangle and the fact that Rafe came back to find that his one and only love had fallen in love with his closest & best friend Danny. HONESTLY, THE WHOLE STORY REVOLVING THE ROMANCE WAS GREAT.
Where the movie lacks MAJORLY is the accuracy of the real life event of Pearl Harbor. Now the reason why this movie has a big fat ol' "F" of a rating on IMDb "5.8" is because when you call a movie "Pearl Harbor" IT SHOULD BE ABOUT PEARL HARBOR. There was a lot of foreshadowing throughout the movie that Pearl Harbor was the target for the Japanese. Why? I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE Micheal BAY DIDN'T TELL US. People who have no historical knowledge of Pearl Harbor will feel lost watching this movie. BESIDES THE FACT THAT PEOPLE DIED AND THE Japanese BOMBED PEARL HARBOR, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON.
Also, the film featured "Doris Miller" and his story of the black cook hero of Pearl Harbor. You don't know who Doris is? Well that sucks. Micheal Bay apparently didn't want to do a very good job at explaining who he was. He comes in a scene here, then a scene there, and all of a sudden he's shooting down an aircraft. Why this has any sort of importance, WE DON'T KNOW. Then he gets a medal, why? WE DON'T KNOW.
Overall, one half of the movie I'm like "YES I LOVE IT" the other half I'm like "THIS IS TERRIBLE"
So I'm giving this movie a 6.5 (I put 7 though)
Not one of Micheal Bay's best movies.... BUT IT'S STILL WORTH WATCHING.