Noisy and foul

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2004)

When this movie hit cinema screens I have to admit I bought into the bright trailers and expensive camera angles. However when I visited the cinema to view Ben Afleck and co I realized the extent to what this film is pure mucus. The plot weaves between poor acting and even worst story lines. I can say confidently a goose could of better handled the seemingly limitless budget this film had. Camera's on bombs, CGI sequences all clouded the fact that the realism of the events was minimal. In all the big explosions it is only regretful that Ben Afleck didn't get singed. His performance was ridged as ever but some of the blame must be shifted to the embarrassingly awful love story. The leading female had fell in love so many times that by the films conclusion you didn't care who she stayed with, it was either pretty boy one or two, both equaling each other in stupid acts of heroism. The horror of war was over shadowed by the demonstration of cash. Films such as Saving Private Ryan pay tribute to the devastating effects of war, however in Pearl Habour all that seemed to happen is a few people fell in love. Salmon Salmon Salmon. I only wish the big directors in Hollywood would consider what they are doing rather than just chucking bundles of cash around the studio. Of all the war movies I have ever witnessed I think this is the only one that makes me wish I was being bombed. Perhaps this is a declaration of American pride in blowing up the Japanese who were by all accounts already out of the war, the bombing of Pearl Habour is grossly over sized as a massive attack on American soil. Get real. The odds appear to be stacked against the American's throughout the whole film which is frankly a bag of beetles. My advise to anyone who plans on watching Pearl Habour is to take a bath in gravy...it'd be more fun.