not much to see here

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2006)

Hey, remember that uh war thingy, happened about 60 years ago? Yeah that's it, World War II. And you know that thing, you know that thing that got the U.S. involved in it? Yeah the attack on Pear Harbor. They should make a movie about that! Wait, they already did? It was called Tora, Tora, Tora? And it was really good? Well I'll be dipped.
Oh well, I'll just get on to reviewing Pearl Harbor. This movie is four hours long, or at least it seems like it is. Don't let anyone tell you differently, this is a paint by numbers love story that happens to use the events of WWII as a backdrop. There's some ridiculous overwrought love triangle and then, BOOM, crap explodes! The darkest days of World War II, wow, I couldn't possibly come up with a better backdrop for a stupid little romance movie.
After hours of sappy romance we, much like the sailors of the Pacific fleet, are struck by endless bombs and action scenes that all pursue the single minded purpose of blowing things the *bleep* up.
It ends with the Doolittle air raid as a way of showing the light at the end of the tunnel, or something. In all honesty if the movie wanted to end on a more upbeat note they could have the nurse character comfort a dying man or something and finish it off with a scene of the Aircraft Carriers returning to the Harbor.
If you can sit through three hours of boring melodrama the action sequences look decent but they get real old real fast.