Pearl Harbor Truly a lesson in hack filmmaking

Rating: 1/10 (14 June 2003)

This is one of the worst films made in a long time, a true lesson in hack filmmaking. It's a film that capitalizes on the realization that tugging at veteran's heartstrings and showing lots of young and perfect looking men and women will produce a blockbuster- but this movie is a hit only in money made, because it is a joke. The characters are so un-likeable that one can't help but cheer for Japan, and only wish they had finished the job to wipe out these useless and dullish characters. The direction is slow and dull, and even the action scene of the attack comes off as over-baked and tiresome. The sweeping musical score, which is indistingushable from a hundred other action/war flicks of recent times, only is there to try and make the viewer "feel" drama. Pearl Harbor fails on all accounts to an interesting film. Why not try a different approach? Why does perfect and hunky Ben Affleck have to be in love with a woman, why not make him a gay man? How about make Cuba Gooding Jr. into something other than his Jerry McGuire-sidekick role? Can Josh Hartness try to act and stop relying on his looks?
Avoid if you can.