I think there's a slight disagreement here...

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2001)

because I myself found "Pearl Harbor" to be quite entertaining. I'll admit that the first half of the movie is kind of slow and boring, but it gets better around the final twenty minutes leading up to the attack. The actual attack was easily the best part of the movie. It was amazingly shot and pulled off. The love story I feel although it seriously messed up the movie in some spots, was necessary for the overall impact of the film. The dialogue is kind of stupid too with lines like "I'm not anxious to die, just anxious to matter", but I won't hold that against the movie. I do agree with one previous comment about Michael Bay not being the right director for a movie about one of the biggest events of the 20th century. That should have been done by either Steven Spielberg or Michael Mann, preferably Michael Mann. I can't comment on the historical accuracy of the film since world history isn't one of my majors. The ending was kind of stupid too now that I think about it. One last thing, didn't Michael Bay do a film with a love story like the one in "Pearl Harbor" three years ago? I believe it was called "Armageddon".
Overall despite some of the film's stupidity and some serious bashings by critics, "Pearl Harbor" is still a good film to watch and you'll probably see it at the Oscars next year.
8/10