I hate Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer and epecially this movie.

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2001)

I have the same 2 problems with this movie that I did with Titanic: unbelievably bad diologue and the tragic disaster brought to life with good special effects. The acting is stiff and wooden; you don't care what happens to the people onscreen. Ben Afflek isn't too bad an actor, but he gets annoying during this movie with the diologue that he spews out. Josh Hartnett (whose hair would've been cut shorter if he really was in the army) is also a capable actor, who sucks at the hands of Randall Wallace, the screenwriter. If any of you people who liked this movie ever see it again, please, please, PLEASE, listen to the diologue. It's so mind numbing that I'm am now stupider after watching this movie. Another problem was the depiction of the event. They didn't make it scary, which is what it should've been depicted as. They showed it as one big, long action sequence. They didn't want you to care about the thousands of people who died at Pearl Harbor. They wanted you to care about how cool the special effects were.

Another thing wrong with this movie was the depiction of the Japanese, which was as one killing machine. The movie wanted you to cheer whenever the Japanese were called dirty b*stards or whenever one is shot down. I didn't cheer. I know something is wrong with a movie whenever the evil Japanese emperor comes onscreen and I expect him to grow a little curled mustach and put on a top hat. Then he can curl his mustache with his finger and pretend he's Snidely Whiplash.
Now I'm not saying that a good movie couldn't have been made about the disastrous event. The movie would've been so much better if it focused on actual people. One good thing about the movie were the supporting roles of three actors: Jon Voight, James King and Cuba Gooding Jr., who are effective in the roles that they play (especially Voight as FDR). Sadly, they weren't enough to save this overhyped peice of dung.
In closing, I am now convinced that Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay can't make a good movie. I absolutely hate these two men and thy don't deserve to be in the movie business. One good thing that I'm glad that Jerry and Michael didn't do was put Nicholas Cage somewhere in this movie. I like him, but apparently he's sold his soul to these two men as evidenced by him being in every movie that Jerry and Michael make.
By the way, I think this has to be my longest review so far. It's amazing what a bad movie such as Pearl Harbor can inspire a guy to write.