Not exactly From Here to Eternity

Rating: 3/10 (15 February 2002)

Wow, Pearl Harbor is a really terrible movie. First off, it's three hours long, and the first hour and a half breaks down about like this: 5 minutes showing the Japanese preparing the attack, 5 minutes showing the U.S. not preparing for the attack, 80 minutes of a generic love triangle. Ah yes, the love triangle. It's not exactly Jules and Jim; heck, it's not even Willie and Phil.
Then comes the attack. It's impressively filmed. You might ask yourself, though, why in a three-hour movie where two hours are wasted on an insipid love story, the film makers only really come to life when they can trot out a half-hour of Impressive Film Making dedicated to showing a lot of people dying.
Just another piece of crap from the guy who gave us the even bigger piece of crap, Top Gun. I'd give it a three on a scale of ten. Go watch From Here to Eternity instead.