Cheesy Predictable Cliched and Over Bloated... GOOD Special FX!

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2001)

Michael Bay needs to remember that he's only good at Eye Candy and can't do emotional drama worth a dime. Then again with Randall Wallace writing... who can blame him. The movie is filled with an extremely predictable plot with overly used twists and turns and highly cliched lines. To sum it up, I could write the script/plot out for you on a cocktail napkin.
Then there's dilemma, how do you end a movie about Pearl Harbor. Can't exactly have the Japanese bomb the fleet and roll the credits. Can't show the bombing of Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki, especially if you're Disney. Almost 4 years of history lie between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima with many choices. In my opinion they picked the write event but they drew it out so much it could have filled another movie. Mainly do to the unnecessary love story.
The saving grace of this film... the 45 minute bombing scene. D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan made soldiers cry. The bombing scene from Pearl Harbor will make sailors (and other service men and women)cry. Some of the technical aspects of the scene were wrong, but only military servicemen or historians will notice.
All in all, don't see this movie if you can't stomach cheese in a movie. Cause this one is full of it. Aside from the 45 minute Pearl Harbor bombing and the 5-15 minutes of so of the Doolittle raid, the rest of the movie is basically... boring.