Bomb

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2001)

I just can't understand why on earth anyone would spend sixty four gzillion dollars making such an enormous turkey. No... wait... I do know. They know that with enough advertising and coverage (good AND bad), enough popcorn chewing Joe Sixpacks will ante up to make them a pot more money to blow on making yet more appalingly bad films.
Pearl Harbor is approximately 23 hours long, and has cast of seventy four million people. We all know Randall Wallace (Braveheart, Man in the Iron Mask) is a visionary - he keeps telling us so - but perhaps he could have considered getting some help with a project this big. The characters are shallow and uninvolving; I just don't *care* what happens to them, especially in the context of the actual important things going on around them.
To be fair, Pearl Harbor isn't as great a travesty as Braveheart, but it's an over long, over hyped, under acted, under paced and just basically drab and awful and appallingly cynical and pointless piece of drivel.
Dare to be different. Don't see this film. Go buy a book instead.