A terrible movie: "Titanic" meets "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

Rating: 1/10 (23 June 2007)

Why I agreed to sit through this movie five times is beyond me. Jerry Bruckheimer produces yet another meaningless blockbuster crowd-pleaser with lots of big explosions, gratuitous violence, and even a little bit of sex.
That's right-- it's "Pearl Harbor," starring Ben "Talentless Hack" Affleck, Josh "Who Am I?" Hartnett, and Kate "Too Interesting for my Career" Beckinsale. Bruckheimer and Michael Bay certainly don't skimp on the special effects. Maybe if they did, this would feel like a real movie. However, we are too drawn in by the things that go "boom" and "rat-a-tat-tat" to care about the characters, their emotions, or even the horrible real-life tragedy that surrounds them. Everything about this movie is terrifyingly staged and even horrifically filmed. If you want to watch a bearable version of the Pearl Harbor story, watch "Tora! Tora! Tora!" It still sucked, but at least it wasn't a complete and total dog like this. If I could, I would give this 0.1112 out of 10. But I can't.