Too bad the casting director was on acid when he chose the male leads for this film....

Rating: 3/10 (5 April 2005)

Pearl Harbor. Another mindless, pointless, emotionless, senseless, & entertainment-less big-budget Hollywood Flop by Micheal Bay. This guy has tanked more movies then.....Ben Affleck, for chrissakes....Why Hollywood even promotes Micheal Bay's mega-flop movies is beyond me. All I gotta see is "A Micheal Bay Film", and I know I'm gonna see lousy acting, over the top special effects that insult your intelligence, slow motion crying scenes with crappy pop music background noise, and most of all, a lousy overall plot.....
Since this was based on Pearl Harbor, I had to see it for myself, simply out of respect for those who died there. This could've been a great movie, considering the $100+ million budget. The saddest part of this whole debacle was casting. They cast the two most monotone, emotionless, talentless jerk-offs in Hollywood as the leads, Ben Affleck & Josh Hartnett. These two guys make Frank Stallone and Jim Hanks look like Oscar worthy actors. Over the years Affleck has quickly built his own reputation for ruining big budget movies, and Hartnett is about as likable as a case of hemorrhoids. Unfortunately, these two idiots are in the movie too much for any other part of it to be remotely enjoyable.
The actual attack scene was very well shot, but the over the top flying sequences where Ben & Josh turn into the flying Mancini's and start pulling off barnstorming stunts with planes that simply weren't capable, is truly annoying. It's kind of like watching Armageddon, only in 1941. There's virtually nothing believable about the flying scenes. The best parts of the movie are the scenes that neither Josh Hartnett or Ben Affleck are in. The Japanese attack was very good. As well as the storyline of the Japanese command and the American high command. But, as stated, enter the Bobbsey twins, Ben & Josh, and every oz. of respect just flies out the window.
Overshadowed by Affleck & Hartnett's lame Bo & Luke Duke imitation, is Kate Beckinsale's performance. Too bad the casting director was on acid when he chose the male leads for this film....Alec Baldwin did a okay Jimmy Doolittle imitation, but once again, the attack on Tokyo with the B-25's storyline was ruined by the presence of Affleck & Hartnett.
A great start to this film would've been for Affleck & Hartnett to be failed out of flight school for being idiots, sent to the front line in Germany and killed, then get on with the rest of the movie without them in it.....