A film of infamy

Rating: 1/10 (25 May 2001)

"Pearl Harbor" is utter crap. If this film is an accurate portrait of America in 1941, then you can't blame Japan for bombing us, since we were clearly the cheesiest, smarmiest, most annoyingly maudlin country in the world, and we had to be destroyed. Veterans should consider this movie an insult to all they fought for.
The actual attack sequence is completely over fraught. Steven Spielberg could have easily called ILM to jazz up the opening of Saving Private Ryan (no one dare compare this piece of filth to Spielberg's masterpiece) but he didn't, because he knew it wasn't about impressing people with effects, it was about conveying the sheer horror of the moment.
People criticized Cameron for the Titanic script, but that was Shakespeare compared to this script. Every stilted, dull line was like taking a spoonful of castor oil with peppermint.
Please, I beg you, don't waste your hard earned money on this. Go rent Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, or any other much superior war film.