The Aftermath

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2001)

*Possible Spoiler* I saw Pearl Harbor this weekend and I have to say that it is an excellent film in every aspect of the word, the beginnging could easily have been made to feel like something to stop the film opening with the battle sequence but it doesn't. The start of the film, the first hour-hour and a half all go into building up the characters so that we care and feel for them later on in the film. The build up to the attack which runs in small segments are moody and give an impression of the sheer scale of the actual attack and how much stock Japan put into it. The attack it's self is a piece of movie magic, once the first torpedo is launched you'll try your hardest not to blink incase you miss something, take an action sequence from The Matrix which typically last 5 minutes, length it to 35 mins and increase the scale massivly to include tens of battleships, airstrips, and planes and you've got the best action sequence featured in a movie to date. The action doesn't stop during the attack and you can't help but get upset and marvel at the sheer scale of attack and the damage done in it. Theres also an intriguing love story line running at the same time. The end is were the film comes apart, it feels like an afterthought because Hollywood couldn't make a film that didn't end without them getting the upper hand. **** out of *****