Spielberg's "1941" better than Pearl Harbor

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2001)

I did not enjoy Pearl Harbor at all. The pacing of the movie between the action and romance did not mesh. A sign of this would be the soundtrack of the movie where it cues to every moment as being anti-climatic. The characters dressed the part but never embodied themselves to that history in time. I didn't care to see what happened to them either way. The action was your standard Bruckheimer fare - loud, big, and lots of it. But the problem was that the characters and plot were so badly developed that you just can't wait for the sappy cartoon romance to end and let the movie cut to the next action sequence. For a better Pearl Harbor movie, I recommend "Tora! Tora!" or better yet, the Spielberg classic "1941".