Nice SFX, predictable and cliched love story

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2001)

The Titanic model of filmmaking strikes again...oh, it's not really about the ship sinking, it's really more about this love story. I doubt that Pearl Harbor will inspire the same repeat-viewing among teenaged girls, however, the love story isn't that great.
Pearl Harbor sequence is exhilirating, but I think the movie's first act doesn't set the stage enough for the third act, which comprises the doolitle raid on Tokyo. The way the movie is now, I felt it should have ended after Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war. There just wasn't enough about the mood of the country or the need for a moral victory in the beginning of the movie that made the last part of the film necessary. That could have saved an hour of my time.