Even "The Rock" Wasn't This Stupid

Rating: 2/10 (27 July 2010)

Trashing a Michael Bay movie is like shooting fish in a barrel, but what the hell.
"Pearl Harbor" makes "The Rock" seem subtle by comparison. Does that give you an idea of what you're in for? The historical bombing of the Hawaiian military installation is given the Bay treatment, which means everyone in it looks like they should be posing in an Ambercrombie & Fitch catalogue, and the terrible devastation is pure titillation disguised as an "important" history lesson.
Nobody gets out of this one unscathed, but Cuba Gooding, Jr., as a religious cook, and Jon Voight, as FDR, fare especially badly.
Grade: D