As awful as I expected

Rating: 2/10 (28 May 2001)

What a waste of a great label. If only 'Pearl Harbor' had been made by a more skillful producer/director.
Here's how the Bruckheimer way works:
1) First, make sure that you have some sort of love story going on, in order to attract a female audience, too.
2) Hire the best demolition/pyrotechnic team in Hollywood.
3) Make full use of all the clichés found in movie history.
4) Among all the action-scenes, create some sort of script.
6) Make sure that all americans are portrayed as heroes.
7) Label the movie "a rollercoaster ride", "this years blockbuster", or something like that (and create a trailer that matches it).
8) Spend enormous sums to market the movie, so people will stand in line almost when it opens (because after a couple of weeks everyone will know that it didn't live up to the hype).
Yet again Bruckheimer teams up with Michael Bay, to present another one of these style-over-substance movies, probably hoping that this - his version of a Titanic/Saving Private Ryan - will bring an Oscar. Well, get this: You are not gonna get one Mr. Your movie(s) will most certainly make the day for the popcorn-eating teenage audience who likes to watch things getting blown up by clichéish heroes, so they can shout "yes!" and give each other high-fives. But for the rest of us, hoping to watch, what could have been an epic: Avoid this movie. The three hours are better spend reading a book, watching 'Tora Tora Tora' (about Pearl Harbor), or 'Enemy at the gates' (about Stalingrad).