- Release Date: 2001
- Runtime: 183 min
- Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
- Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr. ... see all
- Director: Michael Bay
- Plot: Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.
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First of all, the love story sucks. It keeps going back and forth between Evelyn, Rafe and Danny. By the end of the movie you don't really care who she ends up with, although I wanted her to be with Danny but he died. Second, the only good actors in this movie is Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett. Third, Ben Affleck ruins the entire movie. I can't stand him as an actor. He's just horrible. Overall, I thought it was a good movie. The attack of Pearl Harbor is one of the best movie scenes ever made in history. I don't know how they managed to it but they did an amazing job. I thought it was a bit too long though. By the time they got to the middle of the movie with the attack, I just wanted it to be over. It was way too long. The movie really makes you feel for the characters that die and what really happened that fateful morning. The movie was really supposed to be about the attack of Pearl Harbor but instead they wanted to change it into a love story just like Titanic. I can understand why they do that but the love story is a bit cheesy for both Pearl Harbor and Titanic. The love story gives the movie a bit more attention for the movie goers which is why they add that. Overall, Pearl Harbor could have been better. They could have added a better story line for the lovers in this movie and give it a bit more dialogue but aside from that, the movie really gives you a perspective of what happened to all those who died during the attack. I think this is one movie that people will carry on for generations.
It's as awful as you've heard. Really.
Apr 08, 2006
mutty_mcflea - imdb.com
Apr 08, 2006mutty_mcflea - imdb.com
This bloated, overblown, tediously overlong, hilariously cheesy 'Titanic' wannabe showcases plenty of expertise in the visual effects department and nothing but laughable bombast everywhere else. 'Titanic' worked because James Cameron knew how to find the balance between fictional, old-fashioned cornball romance... Full review
Based on a true story...only the names and events have been changed
Mar 15, 2006
rude_boy_mick - imdb.com
Mar 15, 2006rude_boy_mick - imdb.com
Pearl Harbor is without a doubt the worst world war 2 film of the past decade! The plot was lackluster and unoriginal, the acting pathetic for the most part, and the history inaccurate.It seems to be more preoccupied with portraying... Full review
The most expensive B-movie ever made
Feb 09, 2006
Gabriel Garcia - imdb.com
Feb 09, 2006Gabriel Garcia - imdb.com
Pearl Harbor is a monstrous, costly and utterly disrespectful abomination of film with pretensions of serious emotional weight and proper historical context. With the cost of the movie comparable to the damage costs of the actual Dec. 7, 1941, attack,... Full review
Bombed, torpedoed, sunk
Feb 04, 2006
steve-thomp - imdb.com
Feb 04, 2006steve-thomp - imdb.com
Pearl Harbor will appeal to many with its big names, its schmaltzy and contrived love story, its special effects for their own sake and its simplistic appeals to patriotism, morality and retaliatory violence. Yet the reality is that its just... Full review
Someone hand me a sick bucket....
Apr 07, 2005
mr_me - imdb.com
Apr 07, 2005mr_me - imdb.com
Oh dear, what a waste of time and money and more importantly, three hours of my life. Titanic with bombs, only take away James Cameron and any sign of talent, story, pacing and throw in historical inaccurancies, clichés and a... Full review
An utter waste of money, talent and history.
Jan 29, 2005
muertos - imdb.com
Jan 29, 2005muertos - imdb.com
Pearl Harbor is a movie so spectacularly awful that it would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating. There hasn't been a big-budget re-enactment of the Pearl Harbor attack since Tora! Tora! Tora! in 1970, and, due to the utter... Full review
Historically Inaccurate
Sep 09, 2004
Jen - imdb.com
Sep 09, 2004Jen - imdb.com
Ignoring the claims that this movie was so wonderful because Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are "so-o-o-o-o hot," and that the "music was so-o-o-o good," I want to talk about all the historical inaccuracies about this movie. People get the... Full review
Abominable, abysmal, atrocious, ... and that's just the 'A's
Jun 07, 2004
andyf52 - imdb.com
Jun 07, 2004andyf52 - imdb.com
SpoilersTo borrow and paraphrase from that great orator and writer, Winston Churchill, 'Never in the annals of human endeavor have so many witnessed the butchering of history by so few.'I remember a story on a national morning TV news program... Full review
C'est magnifique, c'est ne le guerre pas!
Jan 28, 2003
hissingsid - imdb.com
Jan 28, 2003hissingsid - imdb.com
(Please excuse my French, it's probably wrong)Roll up, roll up! See the cinematic spectacle of 2001! See the horrible deaths of 2500 or so people commemorated by a film about two guys who fly fast planes really fast. See them... Full review
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