What a waste of money

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2001)

Forget what the apologists for this movie say this is a bad bad bad film. Michael Bay obviously likes insulting his audience's intelligence by thinking any old story tagged on will work as long as we have the great spectacle of a shoot up at Pearl Harbour. I'm sorry but it's boring. Give the audience some credit and pay for a decent screenwriter.
The acting for the most part is totally wooden and unconvincing. Kate Beckinsale looks like she's walked on to the wrong movie set by mistake. And do we have to have the whopping and hollering of joy every time an American character patriotically kills the enemy, it's embarrassing and out of place for that time period. To make matters worse the director's just can't let America finish the movie by getting it's butt kicked. You can not compare the Doolittle raid on Japan as some major military victory and certainly it should not be seen in the same context as the Pearl Harbour attack. If you've got some money to spend on a decent war story wait for 'Band of Brothers' mini series to come out on DVD and don't bother with this tripe.