Bombs away!

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2002)

Well it couldn't go wrong, could it?
Michael Bay had 140 MILLION dollar, got some exotic locations, some famous actors and the newest of the newest digital magic one could wish for. A historical fact which speaks immediately to the imagination and also a great typical undefeated Titanic-kind of story.
With this in mind, the movie would have been indestructible, one could almost compare it with the TITANIC! It wouldn't sink either.
140 million dollars. I just can't understand it so I must say it again. 140 million dollars.
You would suspect that someone with 140 MILLION dollars could make a good movie.
Well, guess what: Michael Bay didn't. Why didn't he make a movie with 40 million and gave the rest to those who could really need it. Because now even more people have to suffer to watch this.
I don't know what happened with Michael Bay. Maybe he started to feel the energy of Bruckheimer or got an overdose on drugs and suddenly thought he was `King of the world!' and decided to throw James Cameron and Steven Spielberg of the thrown.
But at the end he is nothing more than a pathological filmmaker who should stay away from a camera.
Love scenes that looks like they came out of a commercial of L'Oreal, and the lovely war scenes with a nice touch of gold-yellow shine.

The attack we all waited for after a long time was shot beautifully but it just missed the rawness of a war-movie, like for example Saving Private Ryan or Platoon.
And what about the script? How much did they pay the scriptwriters anyway? I hope they didn't got overpaid because this was just plain bad!

The typical dialogues like (my heart beats) and the falling in love with Affleck's friend was overdone! And you just know who has to die, because it was in the first lesson of `How to write a script'!
Or when an English officer talks to Affleck: `Not many guys here like the Americans, but if they all fight like you, I wouldn't want to be the enemy'.
Things like this don't make you care about the effects when they are on the screen.
One should learn from their mistakes and history, let's all hope that Michael Bay did the same thing.