This "movie" totally blows

Rating: 2/10 (2 December 2001)

For as much money and time that was spent on producing this film, one would think that it could have had: (1) A decent story. (2) Awesome special effects. (3) Some semblance of historical accuracy. (4) Attention to detail. Unfortunately, what we ended up with was Michael Bay's warped view of how the United States involvement in the Second World War started. What crap. I only saw this movie once in the theater. That was once too many. Do you get the impression that I don't like this movie? Well I don't, and if I knew you hadn't seen it, I would suggest that anything else you might want to see would have a better change of being more enjoyable. The story sucks (a good third of the movie revolves around a farce of a love triangle.) The special effects have a nasty cartoonish quality to them. Mr. Bay changed a great many details that either, didn't suite him, or, were inconvenient to his plot. As for detail, what were late 20th Century Arleigh Burke class, Aegis equipped destroyers doing tied up in 1941 Pearl Harbor? Did he really think that anyone with any kind of knowledge about naval ships wouldn't notice something as obvious as that? I don't know a whole lot about ships, but I do know that ships today don't look anything like those build 60+ years ago. See Tora! Tora! Tora! if you want to see a movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor that has most of its information straight.