This Movie Could Have Been Much More

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2005)

Pearl Harbor was a good movie... if you took out about an hour and made the plot more sensible. The attack scenes were well choreographed, and the cinematography was beautiful. Some of the acting was plausible, yet the plot after the attack went downhill. It should have went on for maybe another thirty minutes... then ended more stronger than it did. It was really pointless. The Love Story, that the writer added into the picture was too forced and added just to attract attention from a sensitive audience... the action was added to attract the hardcore audience... a mix, especially when it seemed "forced" didn't blend too well. The trailers definitely suckered people into watching this film. The trailers were amazing. It reminded me of Roland Emmerich's 1998 remake of "Godzilla." The film looked amazing, yet it didn't work once released and few people liked it. Don't get me wrong, I love Michael Bay and I think he is an amazing director. He just needed to add more plot (less time, of course) but make it better. All in all, an okay movie. Rent it for the action, not really for the romance.