Good special effects can't save an awful script.

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2002)

As I watched Pearl Harbor, one thought kept running through my mind: Isn't this movie supposed to be about Pearl Harbor? I start to get very angry when I think about this movie, so I will keep it short. This movie is a sham. We spend over an hour steeped in a mediocre love triangle just to get to Pearl Harbor. Yes, the special effects are great during the attack, but then we are subjected to the conclusion of the love story, and really, a more hackneyed love story I haven't seen on film in quite a long time. Cuba Gooding's role is too small, and he disappears into the background quickly. For all of the remarkable, heroic, real life stories that actually happened in that attack, to use almost two solid hours on a manufactured, mediocre love story is more than an insult to those fine men and women who actually served, it is a disgrace.