Long, trite and demographically correct....wish it had been more

Rating: 5/10 (26 May 2001)

Seems the skills of getting several points across in a few scenes is dead and gone in Hollywood. Never do in a crisp one minute scene what can take thirty, seems to be the rule of the day. This movie is long. My rear end got mega "level one" tired. That is a sure barometer of other problems in any movie. I guess when you try to tell a story that has been told five dozen times you feel obligated to put every cliche known to man in the effort.
But you know in the world of let's make cash and damn art and damn anything else that looks like classic movie making, this one is demographically superb! No need to cover all the hits but there was even the "little dog" that managed to make it some how!
The movie will make stacks of cash and in some perspectives it deserves to do so. The special effects are top of the line and and Ben Affleck may make a leading man yet. He's a good looking guy and too bad the words he was given to say were so shallow and ...trite.....but like the man said...."people who are trite are good as gold"!
My father was at Pearl during the attack and he said the thing he remembers most was that the whole harbor was covered in oil and on fire. So much for realism huh? Anyway...I waited all the spring for this movie....I mean they started running trailers in January, and I got this. Well, if this is the "summer blockbuster"...I'm going fishing.