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Summary: Star Wars meets Titanic
Review: Pearl Harbor has been bombed again but this time not by the Japanese. This time the culprits were prefabricated Hollywood melodrama.This movie is an appalling bore. The main characters are wooden and uninteresting.
The selling point of the movie is the high-tech special effects. Even this is unconvincing when aerial dogfights between the adversaries are much more akin to "Star Wars" than World War 2. This movie should be locked away forever.
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Summary: Bad fiction, Bad story, Bad acting
Review: This movie is an excellent example of how Hollywood loves to re-write history. I found this movie so inacurate that it was made painfully unbearable. This movie only tells the angry American post-Pearl view of the attack, and ignores and re-writes most of the facts about the attack. The movie has people getting messages they never received, planes getting shot down that never got shot down, and people dying and coming back from the dead more than they do in comic books. The attack scene was horribly inacurate, and seems to have only been shot so the film makers could throw in some big explosions. The movie makes the Japanese seem like the worst villians to ever exist, and completely ingnores their side of the story. The only things that the film makers got right was the date, and that the Japanese attacked a place called Pearl Harbor. If you like bad fiction you might like this movie, but if you want to see what really happened and see a good movie watch Tora, Tora, Tora!
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Summary: Josh hartnett is so hot!! (o yea this movie was great)
Review: This movie rocked it had romance,comedy,and drama it was the best movie ever!!! So rent this or as I perfer buy this if you haven't seen it then your missing out ps josh fans watch this if you want to see great abs. Wowzer this movie rocks and not because josh hartnett was in it and boyz it has lots a of action.. mostaly a girl movie
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Summary: Why Does This Excellent Film Get Bad Reviews?
Review: A number of friends who saw and didn't rave about this movie wanted more of a documentary; a "Tora! Tora! Tora!" with modern special effects. I differ: I believe that each movie stands on its own, both technically, and, more importantly, as a story. I liked the earlier film, but its flaw was and is that it is more of a documentary. "Pearl Harbor" may well be a misnomer for a great story that goes well beyond December 7, 1941, but if you can set all that aside, this is, from almost all perspectives, a really good movie. The characters are believeable people experiencing real world problems, and one cannot help but be drawn into the drama thus created. Both male leads do very well, but I thought that special praise goes to Kate Beckinsale for portraying a young nurse who comes face to face with horrendous loss of life and injuries and, as a result, matures as a character from dilletant to combat nurse. It's a great job of acting. The story of two young flyers starts in their boyhood and beginning careers as Army flyers (There was no US Air Force then, just the Army Air Corps). One (Ben Affleck) flys in the Battle of Britain and is believed killed; his friend ( Josh Hartnett) and his fiancee (Beckinsale) fall in love, and the dramatic tension occurs when Affleck surfaces alive and well. The special effects are fantastic; I never got the sense of a computer trying to fool me, although military historians will note that some of the ships that blow up could not have been at the real attack because their radar masts didn't exist then. But one can always nit pick at details. The fact is that "Pearl Harbor" has suffered somewhat in the press, but don't let that cause you to turn away from it. You are in for a stunning visual experience with this one. And visually and sonically it is all that we have come to expect of the DVD medium.
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Summary: Breathtaking and heartwrenching. . .
Review: this film, with its spectacular battle sequence, is not just a story about war, but about hope, fear, love, and above all friendship. Nomatter how many times I watch this movie, it still moves me. It made me feel the depth of this tragic event in a way I didn't think possible. Undoubtedly, one of my favorite films.
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Summary: GOOD FIGHTING SCENES, BUT THAT'S ABOUT ALL
Review: Let me start off by saying that few things interest me as much as history, especially World War II. I love war movies and usually enjoy them all. This movie was an exception. I was reluctant to go see pearl harbor at first, mostly because Josh Hartnett was in it. I'm not a big fan of his movies. However, I went because it was a war movie.......my mistake. It turned out to be a long, drawn-out, sappy romance much akin to titanic(which says more than enough). I slept through much of the movie and am quite glad I did. The only part of the movie that merits any praise is the actual bombing of Pearl Harbor. This scene was impressive, and yes, I was awake. One other part that I liked was the scene where the crew of a U.S. vessel is trapped underwater after the raid, some good drama. However,these scenes were sandwiched by the horrible love story. Maybe rent it just for the bombing/dog-fight scenes, but for the love of God don't buy it. You'll never forgive yourself.
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Summary: BOMBS AWAY!
Review: The only thing wrong with this movie is it isn't any good.
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Summary: Sorry Guys
Review: Let me say that this movie is visually stunning and that it is this fact that saves it from a 2 star rateing. This movie has the lumber 13 emblazned on the cover. I should explian this course of reasoning this movie has Acting for 13 year olds
A love story for 13 year olds
And (you guessed it) history for 13 year olds. Go rent Tora Tora Tora instead
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Summary: MOVIE IS TOO ROMANTICIZE
Review: Why does Hollywood romanticize war?? Pearl Harbor was a time of shock and horror. But yet, Hollywood turns it into a romantic movie. I was very disappointed with the movie because of this. Hollywood failed in my eyes to show how America failed to take Japan seriously, especially when valuable information was intercepted. If they did, I must of selpt through it. Instead, Hollywood chose to show 2 guys in love with the same girl. Both guys go to war. At the end of the movie, guy #2 wins her heart.
The attack scenes were very realistic. I'm surprise Hollywood didn't add more romance during the scenes!!
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Summary: A Bad Love Story... and, oh yeah, that Japanese Attack Thing
Review: The monumental historical tale of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to and following that act are virtually overlooked in this travesty of a film. What is arguably the turning point of the 20th century is used only as a backdrop for a cheesy, formulaic love story. The acting is poor, the script is poorer, and the director wants us to forgive these because of the great visuals. Sorry, Jimmy, but making Hawaii look good isn't exactly a feat of magic. Oh, and for all of the liberal left out there, Cuba Gooding Jr. is tossed in for a multicultural, look-at-the-black-man moment. His part is entirely unnecessary except to cater to the whiny crowd who'd otherwise complain about the casting. Avoid this movie like the plague. Buy Tora! Tora! Tora! and see what a real tribute to American heroes looks like.
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