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Summary: Two hour love story with 20 minutes of battle.
Review: When I first went to go see this in theatres I was hoping for a historicly accurate, non-stop action war thriller. What I got was a two hour love story and twenty minutes of the actual battle. This movie was very disapointing and exceedingly boring for the first hour and a half. The emphasis is soley on the love interest between two hot shot pilots and some navy nurse. One pilot (who is the boyfriend of the nurse) supposedly dies then his best friend takes over the love interest and gets laid in the parachute hanger with the nurse and makes her pregnant. Almost the immediatly the so-called 'dead' boyfriend returns and all hell breaks lose between the two pilots. Oh yeah, then the battle of pearl harbor happens. Then the two go back to their disputes over who gets the girl. They never settle their differences as they go off to seek their revenge on Japan by bombing them (which is historicly accurate, also known as the Dolittle Campaign) then the current boyfriend who pregnated the nurse dies (opps, spoiler) and the 'dead' pilot takes over... The End. The point of that is to explain that aside from special effect, their was almost no time and effort script wise spent on the historical relavence of Pearl Harbor which is what the hype previous to the movie's release was all about. I only give this movie two stars because of the great special effects and nothing more. However as George Lucas demonstrated in Phantom Mennace, special effects DO NOT make a movie. All in all I would venture away from this movie and go with a quality, historicly accurate movie like Patton, Black Hawk Down or We Were Soldiers.
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Summary: Not a good movie at all.
Review: I don't know how I got through life not knowing anything about Pearl Harbor, but I did. The movie was informative but not really all that good. There was a lot in this movie that could have been left out. The characters were a little boring and the story dragged on.
Rating: 
Summary: seriously, a 5-star?
Review: The attack on Pearl Harber obviously didn't look anything even close to what this film shows it to be. If you want to make a claim that this is a "historical" film, show me that the historical facts are respected(it's really not even worth asking if they are or not). If you want a love story, there are thousands of other movies that are better than this. And if you want a war movie, there are yet another thousands that do better than this one. If you want special effects, ok, maybe there aren't thousands then. But special effects don't make movies by themselves. In my opinion, this movie is an insult to those who died in Pearl Harbor. Too bad special effects sell these movies like they are the only things in the world to see.
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Summary: Give Michael Bay a break!
Review: This film has suffered to much bad mouthing. It is a great historical movie. Titanic wasn't perfect either. This movie is just as good as Titanic. And, for those who disliked the nudity, F words in Titanic this will be welcome relief.
The special effects are amazing. Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett
give strong performances. Kate Beckinsale is good looking.
See this movie.
Rating: 
Summary: Decent
Review: Fantastic action scenes. Good story line, (withthe exception of the mush). Two buddies grow up to become pilots in one of our countries darkest periods. Depicts the courage of many different groups, Nurses, Sailors, Airmen,pretty well. I especially liked it when Doolittle mad his appearance. That guy had a backbone. Worth watching many times.
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Summary: Meet Titanic's little brother!
Review: Okay, I'll admit that the Special-FX and the acting was pretty good. However, the ghetto love story isn't neccesary! It's been done already in "Titanic", which is another Hollywood failure! Plus, the attack couldn't have looked anything like this!("TORA! TORA! TORA!" had a MORE realistic look). I was sooooo disapointed when I first saw this. They've made TOO many of these P.H. films already. Try something new for crying out loud!!! Want a better war movie? I suggest you skip this mess and see, "Black Hawk Down" instead.
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Summary: Just for REAL fans
Review: This edition of Pearl Harbor is a must-have for all fans... First of all, the presentation of the box set is incredible. It was magnificent created, it includes a "copy" of the famous Roosevelt's speech to the Nation... It also contains several post cards with pics of the main characters, a booklet with more pictures and the episodes, and in the center of the box set, 4 envelopes, containing the 4 DVD's. Of course, if you didn't like the movie, don't bother buying this edition, you wouldn't appreciate it as much as the rest of us, who loved the movie.
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Summary: STOP. Don't do anything you may regret. Do not buy this film
Review: I have never been so bored, nor totally hated a film as much as this. The three MAIN things that annoyed me were;
1)the contrived and poorly acted whole love scene, relationship build up thing. If you could actually relate to the characters it would have been less offensive, but I've seen better acting in a Punch n' Judy on Blackpool promenade. A film about a relatively recent major event such as this deserves to be shown accurately (and NOT trivialised into some kindergaten love triangle). 2)The American centred, gung ho, flag waving, tripe that seems to pervade Hollywood these days. Hint for the inept director of this monstrosity- not showing the stars and stripes every two minutes could save something up to half an hour of screen time. Best quote to illustrate my point- the RAF bloke saying to Ben Affleck persona "if all Americans are like you God help anyone who wages war on you"(or something to that effect). Pleeeeease.
3)This film is an example of the present 'political correct culture' in America, that is more offensive to all sides than showing events accurately. Cuba Gooding Jnr, who i think is a fine actor,puts in a rather annoying appearance as the token black guy, and the Japanese are sanitised beyond belief, in order not to offend the lucrative Japanese market. If anyone is in doubt of the double standards of hollywood, please watch The Patriot, and watch ACCEPTABLE levels of racism. However, despite the above flaws, i have a new found respect for Affleck. Man that guy is great. He gets everywhere. Flying in the Battle of Britain, crashing in the Channel then miraculously surviving throught the night, popping back home to fight, then instantaneously make up with the Matt Damon clone, reunite with Girl, pretty much single handedly put up the defence of Pearl Harbor, shooting down numerous Japs. Then, as if America does not have enough well trained bomber pilots, he is drafted in to fly the Doolittle raid. Thats what you call a hero. In case you did not grasp the message contained in this review, I will reiterate. My good deed of the day is to strongly urge you not to buy/watch/go near this 'film', and save your hard earned cash for more enjoyable pursuits. You could buy a tin of paint, paint a wall and proceed to watch said paint dry, a veritable barrel of laughs compared to the agony of watching this film
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Summary: Pearl Harbor, bombed again
Review: The only resemblance this film has with the 1940s, is the old and dated storyline. This movie is a maudlin tale wrapped in what is supposed to pass as history. Throw in an excess of special effects, shake well, and you have this disaster. The love triangle between Rafe, Evelyn, and Danny is mind numbingly vacuous, and none of the characters manages to generate interest. The writers must have been targeting teenage females, since I don't know of anybody who would take this sappy mishmash of boy one meets girl - boy one is reported KIA - girl hooks up with boy two - boy one returns alive - girl gets pregnant with boy two's child - boy two is KIA - etc., seriously. Who wrote this stuff anyhow? Dorie Miller's story is clumsily grafted on like a second head, and it seems as if Cuba Gooding Jr. really has nothing to do. Jon Voight is better than I expected as FDR, but the politically correct ending rang as hollow. This movie disserved Pearl Harbor and WW2 vets by sanitizing Imperial Japan's motives for attacking Pearl Harbor, and presenting Jimmy Doolittle as a foul-mouthed Cro-Magnon. Some of the battleship sets were impressive, but the excessive computer special effects made the combat scenes seem like nothing more than an arcade game (planes flying between ships on Battleship Row? Come on). If you want a decent film about Pearl Harbor, watch Tora, Tora, Tora. If you want to watch junk, then this film is for you.
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Summary: I saw this film 4 years ago......It was called Armageddon
Review: Jerry Bruckheimer is the worst name to put next to any film. Aside from Joel Shummacher that is. I saw this film 4 years ago except it was based on a meteor almost crashing into earth. This must be a sequel to that movie except instead of taking place in space it takes place in Pearl Harbor. Let's see....something major takes place meanwhile Ben Affleck is kissing some girl before he heads off into some hero mission. We think that he's gone during the movie but winds up showing up in the end to get the girl. Now I don't know what those men and women who died during that attack did but I don't think they deserve such a kick in the face. Personally I'd rather be mugged on the street than have to sit through this film again. Ben Affleck is turning himself into nothing more than a piece of meat on film. This film takes the last 45 minutes to show the attacks. HELLO?!?! Isn't that what the film is supposed to be about? Not some weak love story that only a trained ape can come up with. I guess the butchers who came up with the concept must have forgotten what the story was supposed to be about. Either way I learned after Armageddon (or Pearl Harbor Part 1) that I should stay away with anything related to the name Bruckheimer. He makes film for the truly stupid.... If you like sap.. Own this film, if you like dribble...Own this film.... If you have the I.Q. of tree bark...Own this film, if you need a door stop for that pesky door that keeps on closing... You definitely need to own this film. I've seen better acting from a pair of shoes.
Maybe this Joker will produce a movie on WW1 and we can call it Armageddon 3 and Bruce Willis can come back as a man saving this country by drilling a hole in the enemies land. Lord help us.
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