I don't want to see this movie ever again.

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2004)

First off, I would like to say that I'm not going to talk about the truckload of historical errors in Pearl Harbor but instead talk about the movie for what it is.
I've managed to avoid Pearl Harbor ever since it premiered, and it was never a movie I planned on watching, but when it aired on tv the other day my curiosity got the better of me. I have to admit that I had a really hard time hindering myself from switching channels. During some of the more unbareable moments of the movie (and there's lots of them!) I caught myself wishing that everyone who participated in this movie should be banned from acting ever again. Adding to the turkey-esque feeling of the movie is that fact that just about every cliché known to the movie industry is fired off at some point during the movie. Everything from the unlikely black guy hero (Cuba Gooding Jr.) to the amazingly sluggish and painfully sentimental love story to the run-off-the-mill war heroes (i.e. Affleck, Hartnett - which by all accounts manages to look handsome in uniform - but are about as interesting as a complicated tax return). Just about the only thing they got right was the prolonged battle sequence at the end which no doubt looked spectacular, but that alone is not enough by a longshot to save this movie from the abyss of cheesyness. It's simply nothing more than a bad script, bad acting and bad dialogue trying to look good by a budget that could feed a third world nation.
I'm not the first one to say this, but if you want to see a good movie about the Pearl Harbor attack, watch "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and do yourself a favour: try real hard to avoid this garbage.