"Bore-a! Bore-a! Bore-a!"

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2001)

"Bruckheimer Goes Hawaiian" goes something like this:
1)Start with the boat from "Titanic"
2)Add gun turrets
3)Now make a lot more boats just like it
4)Blow 'em all up
5)Get a chick named Kate to play the female lead. Hey. It worked once.
Ya wanna see the "real deal" treatment? Go pick up "Tora!Tora!Tora!" (1970) which actually did a fairly decent job of recounting the series of events leading up to the bombing from both the Japanese and US points of view. "Pearl" is a tremendous waste of good talent and the writing makes "Armageddon" look like Shakespeare by comparison. Strictly a summer "it blowed up real good" type of deal here.
Unless you loved "Titanic" or have a deep-seated urge to see Ben Affleck in a Hawaiian shirt, let me save you $7.50 and 3 1/4 hours. Take a pass. And that's a better warning than Hickam Field ever got!