Pearl Harbor (DVD)

**WARNING – EXCESSIVELY NEGATIVE OPINION TO FOLLOW – READERS WITH A FLUFFY DISPOSITION MAY BE OFFENDED** I suspect you may have gathered that I did not like this movie. It was the hype that did it. Any movie that gathers the volume of hype that this movie did will always have an uphill struggle convincing me that it was worth it – and Pearl Harbour simply wasn’t. The film centres on two American pilots who have been best friends since they were children. The film opens with a brief piece of storytelling that shows the two boys as kids, pretending to be pilots and playing on a farm. (Clue – this is a subtle plot element added in to show that they ...  Read the complete review

Hollywood has a habit of taking factual events and mixing it up with various fictitious events to stretch the story out. That we have so many historical events that would fill a 2 hour event film (and even a sequel at times) seems to elude them. And whereas they nearly got it right with Titanic, here its a very different story. Lifelong friends Danny and Rafe had always dreamed of being fighter pilots. When Rafe volunteers to go overseas where war is ripping through Europe, he leaves behind his beautiful girlfriend Evelyn. Months later, his plane is shot down, and he is registered as missing in action. Danny breaks the bad news to his best friend's ...  Read the complete review

If you care for a summation of Michael Bay's work, Pearl Harbor is perhaps the most quintessentially "Baysian" - a visually impressive, but narratively flimsy film that has a script written by a three year old. That said, it's something of a guilty pleasure because it's got stunning action sequences, and thus I don't feel it's fair to write it off entirely. The problem with the film is that the initial 80 minutes depict a rather snoozy love story involving United States Army Air Corps First Lieutenants Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and a nurse, Evelyn Johnson (Beckinsale). It becomes something of an awkward triangle (due to some circumstances I won't ...  Read the complete review

Pearl Harbor is the 2001 epic war film based on the real events of the attack of Pearl Harbor during World War II. The film was made on a budget of $151,000,000 and grossed an estimated $449,220,945 at the box office. Despite doing incredibly well at the box office this film bombed (no pun intended) with the critics, largely because of the sheer inaccuracy of the movie from everything to how the bombs drop to the lead characters taking down numerous planes while in the air, not to mention the love story between the three main characters. The film is rated 15 and runs for approximately 183 minutes. Michael Bay directs the film, he's a director that many people ...  Read the complete review

Pearl Harbor is a classic American blockbuster movie. It has a good cast with Cuba Gooding Jr, Kate Beckinsdale, Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Jennifer Garner, Alec Baldwin and Jon Voight as President Roosevelt, but this film is really dragged out. I enjoy a blockbuster movie and I appreciate a film covering significant moments in history, but the focus of this movie is around the love triangle of two best friends and a beautiful nurse. The film starts out with the history of Rafe's (Affleck) and Danny's (Hartnett) budding relationship at a young age and their childish games playing in Danny's father's plane. The boys clearly dream of a time when they can fly ...  Read the complete review