Insulting

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2003)

I do not claim to speak for WWII veterans, or survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but I don't have to be one of them to be insulted by this so-called epic film directed by someone who is under the impression he is Cecil B. DeMille. I have never liked any film that Ben Affleck was in, with the exception of "Good Will Hunting" and that might have been because his screen time was cut down to minimum. His presence on the silver screen is the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard... the guy has "I am a narcissistic jerk" written on his forehead. Josh Hartnett acquits himself very nicely, as he usually does in most of his films. I think he understands, unlike Mr. Affleck, that in movie acting, sometimes less is more. Kate Beckinsale did a good job in her impression of a wooden plank. Perhaps Jerry Bruckheimer thought any Kate would do? Beckinsale tries her best to channel Kate Winslet's bread and butter "english rose" acting style but comes up short, way short. Don't even get me started on the films money sequence, the 45 minute long attack on Pearl Harbor. Almost 2,000 men went down on the Arizona, and countless others died on that morning. If you were going to make a film about it, why not give them some dignity, instead of a tired, sorry and clichéd love triangle story?