There is no filmmaking going on here. Rather, it's a nearly three-hour video collage of every awful clich you can think of and some that were certainly forgotten. More like an industrial commercial for Archer Daniels Midland Co., Pearl Harbor is told without character, emotion or reason. Clouds roll by in sped-up time. Japanese women wear kimonos and carry parasols.
Blue skies are uniformly robin's egg blue.
People are talking a lot without saying anything. The war scenes are mostly computer generated and very, very fake. The planes fly repetitively as if they're right out of Star Wars . The hospital scenes are hokey, and the nurses I mean, my god, China Beach 's McMurphy could eat these jokers for breakfast. I guess into explosions there are lots of explosions and into the computer stuff.