Plodding film with impressive Pearl Harbor destruction segment

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 2009)

This film is worth seeing only for the forty minutes when Pearl Harbor is being bombed. It would have been a disaster without those impressive CGI-enhanced scenes of destruction. The rest of the film is a plodding love triangle with mediocre actors and a script that's packed with clichés. Jon Voight plays a scarcely believable President Roosevelt. The film is useless as a history lesson beyond the most rudimentary details. For a reasonably accurate and engrossing look at Pearl Harbor, 'Tora! Tora! Tora!' is your best bet. Otherwise, this is just a typical Michael Bay film with very few signs of intelligence.
Overall 5/10