Definitely not as good as I hoped

Rating: 4/10 (18 June 2001)

Pearl Harbor is definitely not what I wanted or expected. Instead of being a movie that was the total favorite for the best picture Oscar next year, we get one of the worst films of the year. The attack scene is fine, no question. But the love story is flat out BORING. I am going to compare this movie to Titanic, because it's like Titanic (Only Titanic was MUCH better.) Titanic at least has an interesting love story and great chemistry between Dicaprio and Winslet. Pearl Harbor has Affleck, Hartnett, and Beckinsale in this love triangle that leaves a viewer totally unsatisfied. The love story is intense in Titanic. The love triangle in Pearl Harbor is sleep inducing. The really unfortunate thing about this movie is that it had great potential, I thought, and decided not to use it. It would have been in much better hands with a director like James Cameron. Alot of characters are wasted in this movie, because they don't need to be there. As much as I like Cuba Gooding Jr., he is just wasted in this movie, along with Dan Aykroyd, and Alec Baldwin. The length of this movie totally turned me off. It's a three hour movie that would have been alot better if it were two hours. Some historical accuracies left me unsatisfied, especially not getting FDR's December 7, 1941 speech right. There are only two really good things in this movie. The attack scene (visually stunning), and Voight's performance as FDR. Although the speech wasn't correct, Voight sounded just like FDR. Instead of being a best picture contender, all it's going to contend for is best sound and stuff like that, hopefully.