One of the worst movies ever made

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2004)

This movie is a perfect example of why big-budget Hollywood movies are total garbage.
You'd think that the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor -- which resulted in the death of 2200+ soldiers/civilians -- would make for compelling drama. Apparently, Bruckheimer, Bay and Wallace didn't think that was dramatic enough.
Bruckheimer: "We really need to punch-up the drama. The surprise attack, the appalling loss of life, the chaos and disorder... it's just not dramatic enough."
Wallace: "Hey, I know! Let's add an insipid, and totally irrelevant, love triangle into the mix!"
Bruckheimer: "Perfect! Now the attack on Pearl Harbor will have the *oomph* it needs!"
This movie is a gigantic slap in the face to all the soldiers (Japanese and American) and civilians who lost their lives in this attack. Their travails, unbelievably, take a backseat to idiotic melodrama.
Roger Ebert put it best when he said, "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec 7th 1941 the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle."
Rating: 1/10