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Summary: A Great Action/Love Story.
Review: ...If you like action films,you will like this film.The acting is very well done and the cinematography was indeed first class.Will it win any awards?probably not,but it is certainly worth seeing on the big screen.The trailers for the movie pretty much show you what you want the movie to be like,so if you liked the trailers,you will like this film.
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Summary: Incredible Special Effects
Review: When I walked out of the movie.I felt like I had actually experienced the attack.Very intense movie,and it should be.The audience was both white haired and young.Absolutely incredible Special Effects.I give it two thumbs up and a A+.
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Summary: Split the movie?
Review: Decide whether or not you like the movie without worrying about the people who strongly hate it because someone told them it was racist (although I thought it was clear the Japanese were doing what they thought to be honorable, despite it being against the "good guys") or for whatever reasons they didn't like it. Make up your own mind about that. I enjoyed the movie - and it is a fictional movie, not a documentary by any means - but I won't buy it on DVD until they come out with a version that doesn't split the movie itself between two disks - put the all extras on the second disk, and the whole movie on the first. I don't think it was so long that it wouldn't fit, but the intrusion in the middle is unforgivable. I'll buy it as soon as the whole movie is on one disk!
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Summary: What a waste of time and money!
Review: This is one of the worst so-called blockbusters I have ever seen. It fails to hold together as a whole, and its component parts fail to convince. The Affleck/Beckinsale/Hartnett love triangle left me with no sympathy for any of the characters whatsoever. In fact the only people I felt any sympathy for were the Japanese for wanting to drop lots of high explosive on them. The action sequence, whilst impressive in terms of pure effects, was too confusing to leave any sense of emotion - I felt neither angry, nor sad, nor anything really, except wondering what the hell was going on. And the post-attack part of the film is instantly forgettable. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" was so much better in every way. For one thing, it brought out some real emotion as it got to grips with the key issue of the attack coming prior to the declaration of war - a fact ignored in "Pearl Harbor". I was genuinely bored watching this movie and I wish I hadn't bought it without seeing it first.
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Summary: Great Effects, fair acting, poor story
Review: I watched this movie shortly after 9/11 and, at the time, liked the heroic patriotism of this movie. Taking a second look at it, I realize how arrogant and false it is. A British commander tells Afflick, "If all Americans are as good as you, God help the Germans." As if only Americans are brave fighter aces! Were there no English aces. If I were European, I would be extremely offended by this slight on their heroism and self-sacrifice.
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Summary: absolute Brasiliana
Review: A decent war movie seems to be an endangered specie... If you must see Pearl Harbor, that is your problem, but I have to tell you that I cannot decide if I should laugh or cry. Impossible plot, disregard for any historical fact, apart of the actual bombing, shallow as a grave. from where did they find such a genius screenwriter?The plot is as dumb as 500th piece of Brasilian soap opera (no offence to Brasilians, though).
My personal best is the main hero being shot down in full sun and emerging from the waters in the night (and close to shores of Spain or something...instead of middle of the English Channel). Worldwide record in underwater swimming without aqualung, my congratulations!!!!!!!!!! Plus many anachronisms, plus absolutely no idea of the movie whatsoever besides waving the flag. Also waving the flag could be done intelligently! For reference please see really good war movies and Americans did quite a few of them. PS I actually decided to laugh for about a half of the movie.
PS PS One star is far too many...
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Summary: Tight.
Review: This movie was very cool,and tight.The attack sequences were awesome,and the script was well written.I recommend this classic to anyone who's looking for a good time.
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Summary: Don't buy this one
Review: This film must rank amongst the very worst high budget films of all times. And even with a 200 million dollar budget they were unable to recreate 1940s warships. Ever wondered why they show the Japanese carrier battle group only for about one second at a time? Because it's a modern U.S. carrier. All the ships in Pearl Harbor (during the overflight scene) are clearly modern, and even for the explosions they used only scarcely camouflaged Spruance class destroyers from the 1970 and Knox class frigates from the 1960s. Combine these horrible and unforgivable anachronisms with ridicolously bad acting, a totally unbelievable and inaccurate story, and so many slow motion shots that it makes you sick and you get a cinematic disaster.
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Summary: So bad it's appalling.
Review: To take something as monumentally important to history as the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and surround it with a beyond-silly love story and completely implausible characters makes this movie more than bad. This film is downright offensive. I'm a fan of special effects and action films, but I don't quite see why anyone would be "cheered," "amazed" or "enthralled" by the attack scenes in this. This really happened, after all. People, by the hundreds, died in the most horrific of ways, and, I'm sorry, watching Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett run around pumping their fists and gunning down Japanese planes didn't make me feel "pro-American." It made me think that the filmmakers were exploiting an event that's clearly beyond their artistic grasp and manipulating it to make a film that they think the "American public" would digest. Luckily, this dismal, badly-written and completely silly film essentially failed to make any money, which reaffirms my faith in American tastes a bit.
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Summary: Michael Bay's worse movie to Date
Review: Michael Bay is in my opinion a talented director. With an impressive start with both Bad Boys and The Rock he has proved that he can deliver entertainment that is both commercially and critically well received. Pearl Harbor just plain unfortunate. To be handed a budget of approximately $135 million (negative costs only) and deliver this product represents a waste of Disney's resources. Furthermore for this to occur under the helm of veteran blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer is equally surprising. One of Pearl Harbor's central flaws lies in its attempt to do too much. It seems like the goal here was to emulate what James Cameron had pulled off in Titanic: Drive a potent love story against the back drop of an epic event. Sadly enough this goal was unrealized. The characters are transparent and it is hard to empathize with any of the central characters because the core of the story revolves around two best friends basically fighting for the same girl, when either one could have demonstrated nobility in backing off. Lastly, the movie is inaccurate. The Japanese pilots destroyed almost all American planes that got of the ground, NOT the other way around. Perhaps this large budget mishap is the reason Michael Bay has gone back to the drawing board and is taking on a lower-budget remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as his next endeavor. I am sure he realizes that proving himself again as a great storyteller instead of a budget buster will restore the studios faith in his apparent talent.
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