Two Movies In One...

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2015)

Pearl Harbor is probably one of the biggest targets for movie critics, everyone seems to enjoy picking this movie apart. I have seen Pearl Harbor several times and have enjoyed it, but it is obviously two movies blended together; a historical action/drama and a cheesy romance. The Pearl Harbor attack scenes ( Dec 7th, 1941 ) were amazing, some of the best war movie action sequences ever. John Voight was outstanding as President Roosevelt. But the romance part of the movie was nauseating, and seemed to be detached from the war story. A few cliché scenes didn't help either, and did the movie really need a character that stutters ( though I am a fan of Ewen Bremmer ). It was hard to take Dan Aykroyd seriously as a navy captain as he was a cast member from SNL. The Doolittle Raid was a great add to the movie ( 'We're going to Tokyo....and we're going to bomb it' got the adrenaline going! ), but after the raid was over, the movie seemed to go nowhere, like 'ok, what now?'. Bob :-)