Horrible waste of 3 hours!!!

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2001)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOIILERS*** "Pearl Harbor" should be that kind of movie that moves people on Memorial Day weekend. A movie that COULD honor those who mustered up their courage so we could live -- while the rest of America had fun, young men and women had to feel driven by adrenaline. It'd be really great if "Pearl Harbor" could show us all that sort of honor that we should remember ever year, if not every day.
"Pearl Harbor" was a very badly acted soap opera, with a script I could write when I was 10 years old, a script ANYONE could write when they were 10 years old, that had such a lack of character development or any unifying point or theme I wanted to gag. I seriously wanted to leave the theater! It was an insult to my taste!
Evelyn had two hot guys at her disposal. She fell in love (in 2 days of course) with Ben Affleck, and when they thought he'd died she had sex with Josh Hartnett on a parachute. YES! It's as stupid as it sounds!
All right, so then Ben Affleck comes back out of nowhere saying he survived, and oh -- "When I saw your face, Evelyn, I wanted to live! OH!" Then the best friends fight, and all of sudden the harbor gets bombed and everyone's dying, but you DON'T CARE about them. They're just people dying. Cuba Gooding, Jr. had 20 minutes of talk time in this movie, oh, it was horrible.

Then the chick is pregnant, and then the boys go on another mission to bomb Tokyo, and I was wondering -- "PLEASE, let it end! IS this the climax or what?" and Josh Hartnett dies, so Kate Beckinsale can make an easy decision on who should be the father of her baby -- "Oh, what a relief. Now you boys don't have to fight for me!"
Some scenes would have been very moving if the rest of the movie wasn't such a load of crap. The hospital scenes were really cool (until Kate Beckinsale, after saving a man's life, told him later to let her in on the top secret mission her boyfriends are involved in because she saved his life. What a..... uh, that was sick.)
Ben Affleck cannot act. His attempt at emotion is very hilarious. Kate and Josh might have something there if there had been a well-done script ("oh, whenever i see the Pearl Harbor sunset I think of you!" "I won't let go, Jack, I won't let go...wait, wrong movie!) but Ben -- LOL, he's so beautiful, but he's very bland. Matt's better.
I would like to quote Rick from Casablanca in retrospect -- "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world..." This movie preferred to make a big deal about choosing between two hot guys, like that was bigger than the deaths of million of other people in the Pearl Harbor bombing. ugh! I was so disgusted!
Character development was a major problem in this film. Every detail that was presented about anyone was trivial and disorganized. What about Cuba? We saw about 5 minutes of development, what emotional weight could that carry? Details were very immaturely put together, thus making the powerful bombing scenes pointless and emotionally empty. It was sad, but didn't come near tragic.

People applauded at the end of this film!
JUST MY OPINION, though, hehe.