Poor in the extreme, don't waste your time

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2001)

I just came back from seeing Pearl Harbor and thought it was the dullest and most boring movie since Showgirls
By making the love story centre stage, the whole war and bombing is kind of diluted as something that happened to get in the way of Affleck getting laid.
To me the love story felt forced from the beginning, meaning there is no reason to care about any of the characters, removing all emotional impact - and that was further ruined by all that utterly terrible dialogue If only the love story had been reduced to a sub plot and so taken the running time down by around 1 hour and 45 minutes, we would have had a trim and lean war movie with a stunning central attack sequence.
However the photography and score is beautiful (I think it was photographed by the same guy who shot Armageddon - John Schwartzman)