Long and Lame

Rating: 4/10 (23 May 2001)

It's been a while since I have had a less enjoyable time at a movie. Pearl Harbor is over three hours long, but it seems more like five! We start with a Top Gun introduction then move into establishing the romance aspect which feels extremely forced and is filled with cliches. This goes on (and on) with nothing original and anyone who has seen a few movies can predict every step of this relationship. When we finally do get to some battle scenes they are well done and interesting camera work, if your still awake at this point. The action scenes do a good job of depicting the chaos that I can imagine must have been going on. After the attack is over and you think it's just about done, the story manages to keep dragging on. The acting is very uninspiring and Cuba Gooding Jr. is completely wasted. This is probably the fourth movie I've seen centering around the attack on Pearl Harbor and by far the weakest one. The battle scenes save this movie from a worse rating. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 4.