The movie of the year that had the most people talking prior to it's release, and had the most moaning after viewing it.

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2001)

I am not from a distant planet. I believe to have a fully functioning brain, although most would leave me to believe that's not true as I find myself strongly dissenting with the many who found Pearl Harbor to be an astonishing movie. Astonishingly shallow would more correctly describe it. Other than a 45 minute reliving of the dramatic attack on Pearl Harbor that managed to capture the horror to a decent extent, the remaining 135 minutes of the movie is a love story that grasps your heart about as much as seeing Donald Duck drooling over Daisy Duck. SPOILER ALERT After Ben Affleck's character, Rafe, "dies" at war it is made incredibly obvious that Evelyn will fall in love with Danny that you can pretty much hear the director yelling it out. In what was a sure death for anybody else on this planet it turns out that Rafe, with his surprisingly modern look and hair style, indeed survived and has come back to claim his woman. The remainder of this love story is boring and predictable, and the producers should apologize to anyone led to believe this movie was predominantly about the actual conflict between the Americans and the Japanese and attack itself on Pearl Harbor, when in fact it is more of a two-star love story. Shame on the producers for going so softly on what really happened in fear of offending the Japanese and Japanese-Americans. A harbor is defined as a place of shelter or refuge, and refuge is what I craved having to sit through this three hour flick.