for heavens sake it's supposed to be melodrama!

Rating: 8/10 (3 July 2004)

Worst movie ever made? You guys haven't seen lots of movies then and comparing this one to Tora Tora Tora! is just one example of apples vs oranges argument which rarely is very productive. T3 is DOCUdrama and if you really take a good look at that one the acting is truly abysmal, especially on American side. One of my personal pet peeves against war movies of 60's and 70's is that they don't much care about costuming, 70's fashions in second world war really rubs in the eye and that throws the good IL' suspension of belief out of the window quicker than you can say terylene. Pearl Harbor is a throwback from the earlier time, war flicks of 40's and 50's, and if you really want to compare it to something, do it with those. >From here to eternity is probably the first contender, and surely it is superior to Pearl, but Bay didn't have the kind of stellar cast as Zinneman did so what can you do. Affleck ain't Burt and Hartnett sure ain't even in the same hemisphere with Clift or Sinatra. Of course us nonamericans find Bays excuse to put American flag to every fifth scene quite hilarious and dialogue is beyond corny in some instances, however PH is entertaining spectacle in it's own right AND it's not supposed to be taken as fact. Lighten up people!