Worst Excuse for a War Film.

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2015)

Pearl Harbor (2001): Dir: Michael Bay / Cast: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight: One of Hollywood's great big lies. It is not so much about the 1941 attack by Japanese forces as it is about the pathetic love triangle where two soldiers fight to get into the pants of a nurse. With that said the title is misleading. Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are the two war buddies and Kate Beckinsale plays the nurse and the big highlight is a love scene underneath a parachute. Remember, this is advertized as a war film. What a load of bullshit. There is an embarrassing needle injecting scene where Beckinsale passes Affleck even though his vision isn't the best. They have a corny romance before he goes off to war where he is reported dead but he makes a surprise return only to find her and Hartnett banging like porn stars. Stupid tearjerker ending for the suckers. An embarrassment for Michael Bay who previously made the idiotic Armageddon. Pitiful opening regarding a kid accidentally starting a plane. That should key viewers in to just how stupid this garbage truly is. Dreadful acting by Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale with Cuba Gooding Jr. deserving better. Jon Voight plays the stupidest United States President since Bill Pullman in Independence Day. With no broad Japanese roles the film becomes a racist $140 million hunk of sh*t. Score: 1 / 10