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Summary: A Little Too Long??? Try Way Too Long!!!
Review: This movie has Jerry Bruckheimer written all over it. The love story was unbelievably sappy and contrived. The only redeeming aspect of the movie was the Pearl Harbor attack (which they also managed to screw up by drawing it out for what seemed like an hour). They should have ended the movie there but instead they had to involve a Baldwin, only making the movie that much worse. I also despised the subtle attempts to dispel myths that have persisted concerning the attack on Pearl Harbor (i.e. that Roosevelt knew the attack was coming and even welcomed the attack in order to go to war). Let people make up there own minds instead of inserting historical inaccuracies which portray the studio's version of what the they believe happened. Like I mentioned, the only worthwhile part of the movie was the incredible Pearl Harbor attack scene and the incredibly beautiful Kate Beckinsale. Other than that, this movie reeked of Hollywood commercialism. A great historical film??? Not Hardly. A maudlin love story which cheaply capitalizes on one of the most hallowed events in American history??? That sounds about right. (I can see Jerry Bruckheimer racking his brain trying to figure out how he can portray the story of two NY Firefighters and the events of 11 September 2001. Played by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, of course.)
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Summary: Pretty hard to watch....
Review: The amazing job done by ILM on the special f/x are the only reason Pearl Harbor gets two stars. The combat sequences are incredible. However, it is terribly written, poorly acted, and contains characters that are blan and hard to like. Even worse, the love story is cheesy and cliche ridden and nearly impossible to stomach. This film also should have ended shortly after the attack. Instead, Pearl Harbor is so long that it's like watching two bad movies back to back.
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Summary: I didn't like this movie
Review: OK, so the actual attack scene was brilliant. That is not enough to make this a good movie. As was the case with "The Titanic," this movie is as much a story about a romance as it is about the historic event it portrays. Quite frankly, much of the story line is predictable (ie, two best friends have a serious conflict over their common love interest) and the story line is extremely hokey. The greatest sin of this movie is that it drags on way too long. There was a way to end the story a half hour before the movie actually ends, but no, the screen writer ads on a whole additional story line that, although exciting, is too much already. I prefer an historical movie with less of a fictional story line, such as "Tora Tora Tora." However, if there has to be a story, please, let it not be a totally silly romance!!!
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Summary: Now on ebay
Review: They tried to wrap Tora, Tora, Tora; From Here to Eternity and Thirty Seconds over Tokyo into one film..and failed miserably on all counts.Have you ever regretted buying a DVD ?? This is my situation... This is a sappy; historically inacurate, LONNNNNNG piece of filmmaking garbage...Did the writer ever read a history book or even watch the aforementioned movies ?? Imagine these two stars being involved in BOTH Pearl Harbor AND the Doolittle raid... wow !! Now that I think of it.. this is pretty much an insult to every vet who ever fought in WW2 on any front... All that was lacking was a laugh track.."1942 was more gripping and....more believable and that was fiction !!. Like the previous reviewer, I couldn't watch the whole thing either... Thank God, I have the new DVD of Guadalcanal Diary to fall back on.. I'm putting my Pearl Harbor DVD on ebay and hopefully I can recoup some of the cost...
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Summary: 160 minutes???
Review: Well, I tried watching this, I really did. The attack footage is spectacular, the rest of the movie is such a waste. When you have a list of people like this movie does that you just know can act (Affleck, Baldwin, Sizemore, and Gooding) and this is what you get out of it, I think it says something. This movie says Michael Bey should stick to the movies where things blow up and he tells a buddy story and leave the romantic pieces to others. I may be selling this short as I did use the skip ahead a number of times to try to get past the plastic romance, but the fact that I used it at all is telling. If you want to see a good movie about Pearl Harbor, get the reissue of Tora! Tora! Tora! The effects are dated (it's 30 years old after all) but a much better movie.
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Summary: "Bora! Bora! Bora!"
Review: Boring, stupid, banal, unneccessary and historically incorrect are all words that can describe this "epic" three-hour music video trash. (...) You want to know what really happened December 7, 1941 in the form of a movie? Watch the excellent "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970) where the evil (..Japanese) are REAL people with REAL motivations and the direction of the film is excellent, as opposed to this albeit slick Michael Bay (Armaghedon, Bad Boys) rubish. I'll rate "Tora! Tora! Tora!" right next to "Patton" anyday. As for "Pearl Harbor"; let's just say I won't be "enjoying" this distasteful chick-flick at home anytime soon. "Pearl Harbor" piddles on the men and women who LIVED the date which will live in infamy. I wish I could give it a rating of No Stars.
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Summary: Love Story Not a War Movie
Review: If you want a war movie go buy or rent Tora Tora. If you will enjoy a love story based on an historical incident you will enjoy this movie. One problem with the DVD though, I could not read the Japanese/English sub-titles in this wide screen format.The subtitles were too small and blurred. ( Sony 36" XBR and Sony DVD player.)
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Summary: Yuck, blech, blah, zzzzzzzz
Review: I actually really looked forward to seeing this film but WOW, there is no other way of describing this film as anything but a horrible mess. Call it the 'Titanic syndrome' but taking a major historical tragedy and slapping a love story on top of it just came out a mess in this case. Bad casting, worse acting, horrible history, and THE worst script of a major hollywood film all in one. The video game-like presentation of the attack simply did an injustice to history and all those who fought and lost their lives.
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Summary: History Perverted by Hollywood
Review: This was the absolute, most terrible movie I've ever seen. It was historically inaccurate and filled with every romantic-drama cliche there is. If Michael Bay wanted to make a romance, he could left history out of it. I think the event of Pearl Harbor itself is quite dramatic enough for a film, without having to add sex and betrayal. The saddest part is that people are actually going to watch this movie think that FDR actually drew attention to his disability so blatantly, when in fact he never would have done anything like struggle to his feet that way. And no one died on the Doolittle Raid. Only Kamakaze pilots wore the rising sun head bands and they weren't used until 1944. And turning the struggle that followed the attack into a game of chicken? The utter disrespect for the people who suffered through Pearl Harbor is abhorent and I cannot believe that more people do not feel this way.
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: When this movie came to the local cinema I stayed away because of the lack of good reviews. So when it came to DVD I decided to rent it. I'm so glad I did. It's a great story of friendship and love trying to survive in an uncertain time. The attack on Pearl Harbor was done perfectly. I loved every minute of this movie. So now I'm off to buy the DVD.
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