Fraudulent

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2001)

Allright, so I watch the trailer and I think it is going to be POSSIBLY even better than American Beauty. I look at it and say "Well geez, that is going to be one spectacular film" and so, I get two of my closest friends and I go to the movies! So, I sit there for the 3 hours 5 minutes, and enjoy the film, right? Well, yes, I am a 13 year old female that basically saw the film only because the two main characters are incredibly good looking; I feel that probably many other females did the same as I. The first time I saw this movie, I was blown away it was great, I got teary eyed, the special effects were great... and so I decided to see it another time. I enjoyed it even more the second time, and then I bought the soundtrack. You are probably thinking that I mislead you by the summary at the top "fraudulent" or that I don't know what it means, but let me continue. So, I am overly touched by this film and I cried and all when ????? died. Then, I went home and discussed it with my brother. I guess that I didn't realize that the main reason I did like it was BECAUSE of the love story, which wasn't even based on a true story which totally takes away from this being a "realistic, historical film" or whatever. I mean, the film was basically a love story that got "interesting" around the comings of the whole attack on Pearl Harbor. I didn't go to it to see a love story, I wanted to see a historical film on a subject in which my history teacher lectured about, something that I found interesting. The whole battle scene lasted 40 minutes, but then it basically went back to the love story. That's basically forty minutes about what the movie is presented to be (about the bombing). I did enjoy the whole Doolittle's raid part. Though, although Ben and Josh are gorgeous, they aren't great actors, which was kind of a reason I turned out to not enjoy the film after hours of really thinking about it. Probably the greatest actor, who played an incredible role, was that Jon Voight, the one who played F.D.R. he put on an incredible performance and hopefully he will be in line for some academy awards. So, if you know what happended at Pearl Harbor, you really don't need to see this movie. I give it a 4/10.