Good and bad at the same time.

Rating: 4/10 (2 July 2008)

OK here is the good news, This film is visually amazing as well as the sound and the score. Now for the bad news. first off who came up with this idea because they half ass-ed the script. Many will complain about the inaccuracies and the love story. Im not one to completely criticize those elements because any movie portraying historical events will have plenty of those. The thing i have against this film is an interview that Michael bay did with movie line magazine that had him talking about the formula that made Titanic successful. Put a historical Background with special effects and a love story to bind it together and you got a box office and Oscar giant. Very naive statement there. First off what Titanic did only works once and they tapped into it not to mention that James Cameron completely did the research on everything that was true and what was myth. Why Titanics love story works is because its characters were fiction and only they were fictional. Everything else was fact and the fictional characters did not depict what happened that night. James Cameron was very careful with not letting the love story contradict the historical facts. He guided them around it and bouncing off it but never affecting it. Michael Bay was not so careful with that and it cost him. His naive approach was more about box office and Oscars that he forgot what he was making. For a summer blockbuster i enjoyed it the first time i saw it but only as something entertaining to watch. I don't go to the movies souly to critique the hell out of every film i go to enjoy a cinematic experience unlike some of the people who just come on here to bash films. Peral Harbor is not anywhere the greatest films of all time but its not the worst filming thats ever been displayed you can at least appreciate the effort that was put into this. I came out loving Hans Zimmers score so thats something positive that came from this film.