Overly-hyped, overly-long, whiney, sappy, melodramatic tripe

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2002)

A friend of mine and I watched this overly-long 3-hour flick two weeks ago on DVD. Though the film has extravagant special effects, the characters and plot fail to live up to the massive hype that this film received when it was released.
Ben Affleck's character and the love story with Kate Beckinsale was nearly identical with his character in Armageddon. It's sad that he, the writers and producers of Pearl Harbor couldn't come up with something more original.
After 2 hours of watching this film, I nearly fell asleep. If the editors had cut most of the whiney, sappy & melodramatic tripe to have a 2-hour film, it would have been a much better, far more entertaining and much more exciting movie.
My advice: if you want to see a good film about the attack on Pearl Harbor, watch the History Channel or rent the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!".