Missed it's chance

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2001)

It's a pity, but this movie really missed it's chance to be a real blockbuster like Titanic.
The love story, apart from being very easy to guess it's outcome, is quite nice, sometimes even humorous without ever being silly.
However, the deficiency of this movie lies within the attack on Pearl Harbor itself. This is, unfortunately, a Hollywood-glorified and modified version of facts, desperately bent to try to fit it into the love story, without keeping to accuracy. However, this doesn't work out, the attack itself is almost a story by itself, only connected to the main (love) story by thin lines, it's more like a movie within a movie. Maybe it's because I don't specially like war movies, but the attack on Pearl Harbor was, apart from some impressive special effects, quite annoying, too much shooting, and somewhat tiresome.