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The bombs explode brilliantly but the story is a bust in "Pearl Harbor."
For my money a much better heartbreaker, thrillmaker and tear-tweaker than Titanic.
The woe and horror of the event is steamrolled by a surplus of special and digitized effects.
Mostly tests one's patience with unseaworthy dialogue and performers drowning in oily cliches.
The net result of this mighty effort is perhaps predictable: near total inconsequence.
This violent movie is worth seeing, but only once.
"Pearl Harbor" zips through clichés like a chainsaw ripping through a stack of Cliff's Notes.
May be the closest thing to a good movie Michael Bay will ever direct; unfortunately, it's still not very close to a good movie.
Tora! Tora! Tora! is still reigning champ for historical drama, but if you like soapers and romantic treatments, Pearl Harbor is the film for you.
Shockingly, this saga is as aquare as they come: straight, earnest, and schmlatzy epic about the impact of WWII on two flyers in love with the same girl--a 1940s routine flick with special effects.
It's bad all right -- I was wincing at the overwritten dialogue within the first five minutes.
The film is not as painful as a blow to the head, but it will cost you up to $10, and it takes three hours.
[Michael] Bay didn't set out to make a film about Pearl Harbor. He set out to make a TITANIC clone that would go "Ka-ching" at the box office . . . Try TORA TORA TORA instead.
It's just a bit unfortunate that such an incredible, noble story, one which turned a nation around and galvanized a generation into action, should be told by such weak storytellers.
Bay's clunky and mammothly plodding Pearl Harbor is one movie that tries to do too many things at once without concentrating on any one specific point...the romance and action sequences are fussed over yet they deliver nothing really spectacular
A huge steaming pile of cheese with an admittedly spectacular central sequence that is ultimately worth the price of admission.
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