Cinematic cow dung

Rating: 1/10 (14 February 2006)

This is a nauseating, contemptible piece of Hollywood trash that uses and abuses a real event to present a jingoistic, flag-waving piece of propaganda. In addition to its gross historical inaccuracies, it is one of the most dramatically inert piles of manure to see a cinema screen since the rotten "Inchon". From a technical perspective, the attack on "Pearl Harbor" is a fine achievement, but every positive is cancelled out by a dozen negatives. If director Michael Bay and Co. had not crapped on about the historical context of the film and its "importance", it could have passed for disposable rubbish. Instead, it is pretentious, boring, long-winded cow dung of the highest order. Only the trailer, which used a beautiful Hans Zimmer cue from "The Thin Red Line", has any artistic merit.