Certainly not wonderful...

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2002)

Pearl Harbor was NOT a terribly wonderful movie - I left the theater feeling that the film didn't achieve what it was going for. Had it not been paid for by my history class (since going to see it was a field trip), I probably would have felt it was a waste of money.
Granted, the movie probably does have quite a few inaccuracies, as does any history-based film, BUT - I give the movie 2 thumbs up for introducing the idea the Americans in charge knew the attack was coming. I don't care what people's junior high textbooks said, FDR KNEW that we were going to be attacked at Pearl Harbor and LET IT HAPPEN (purely for the purposes of getting the country to unite and want to go to war). I'm very glad that this movie touched on that idea at least somewhat...
The only real complaints is that the movie didn't use it's time well. After the first 40 minutes of bombing, your only concern is how much your butt is starting to hurt. And the "romance"/love triangle was only disturbing, distracting, and downright laughable.. certainly don't see this movie for that aspect.
I say, if you're into rather lame action/war movies (and you have a LOT of time on your hands), go ahead and see it, it fits into its genre nicely. And I've definitely seen worse movies this year.