At least one hour too long.

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2001)

While the epic battle of Pearl itself stood out as some amazing film (in fact, it almost looked TOO good/clean/perfectly composed), the other 2+ hours surrounding it are pure torture - Scene after scene dragging on with bad dialogue and bad acting.
Technically, very choppy editing (sometimes done successfully as a style and sometimes coming across as a bad music video) and a very LOUD sound mix make Pearl un-even, even though every frame looks like a million $$.