Explosions are COOL!!

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2011)

Michael Bay hit an all-time low here, honestly. Usually I can let go a lot of his ridiculous and overdone humor and action sequences due to the fact the stories he tell are of course fictional and hold no real relevance to mankind other than entertainment. But this, especially in the light of the much more realistic"Tora! Tora! Tora!", had already been released, is just plain offensive. Bay delivers a story that is just overloaded with plot holes and historical inaccuracies. It literally feels like a slap to the face; as if Bay was really in such a rush to honor the victims of Pearl Harbor that the studio and crew didn't even check if the damn screenplay for the many errors within it all.
Not to mention the love story is poorly executed and overly drawn out. Cuba Gooding Jr.'s character was the only historically relevant in the whole film, and yet his role is more of an after thought. Then he treats us to his usual explosion filled action sequences, which were hardly the point of any war film ever made, so to make special effects the focal point of a war movie instead of the characters and atmosphere was just plain stupid. "Platoon" had a budget I hear of only around $8 million, so how exactly did a movie with more than triple that fail so badly?