Pure Drivel.

Rating: 2/10 (26 May 2001)

The first hour of this movie is pure drivel, composed of a series of "Hallmark Moments." This part of the movie is long, slow and painful. I highly recommend skipping it. Suffice it to say that a pair of pretty pilots are being shipped off to war, hook up with some nursing babes and fall for the same girl. Music swells, soft lenses are used, sunsets are cherished and really bad acting is captured on film.
Slightly more than halfway into the movie the attack on Pearl Harbor actually enters the script. At this point I became alert again and briefly felt a connection with the movie, as if the horror of war were surrounding me. The relentless waves of attack assault your senses. And just as I'm starting to connect...
The babe is back and the music swells and lots of bad acting ensues.
Affleck is entirely unbelievable in this role. Every moment he is on screen I am reminded that I am watching a movie and this guy is attempting to act. The southern accent is wretched at best.
The rest of the cast doesn't fare much better. The acting is ineffectual, probably due in large part to the weak script, which contains characters so predictable and one-dimensional that the audience always seems to be several steps ahead of them all the way.
Drivel, pure drivel. 2 out of 10 from me. (2 for the aerial choreography, the most interesting element of the movie) You can catch far better WWII movies on AMC for free.