Trauma on thought and senses

Rating: 2/10 (23 May 2001)

Pearl Harbor (PH) is the producer's attempt to manipulate emotions of the American audience. Like that other piece of celluloid trauma on thought and senses, Titanic, this film is a soup of incoherent thought marketed with supposed courage as the seasoning. Titanic had some great sets, cinematography, cheesy score, based on a factual event mixed with subpar performances presented in a package with a romantic twist on the ribbon. PH applies the same formula.
Almost all sequences that are not on ship-board are a sappy twist to reel in the suckers. The actual sequences of the bombardment are better, true. But even those if benchmarked against the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan fall short. PH just does not measure up to SPR in conveying the horror that must have been faced by the men on that other fateful day of the war.
I just hope I don't have to suffer through Michael Bay being a jackass on the oscar stage 'I'm the king of the world'....