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Pearl Harbor (2001)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:8
Rotten:27
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Pearl Harbor tries to be the Titanic of war movies, but it's just a tedious romance filled with laughably bad dialogue. The 40 minute action sequence is spectacular though.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sustained intense war sequences, images of wounded, brief sensuality and some language
Runtime: 3 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:May 25, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $197,761,540
Synopsis: Director Michael Bay (ARMAGEDDON, THE ROCK) uses a tragic romantic triangle to set the stage for the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in this epic tale of love, loss, and patriotism. When... Director Michael Bay (ARMAGEDDON, THE ROCK) uses a tragic romantic triangle to set the stage for the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in this epic tale of love, loss, and patriotism. When Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale), a beautiful Navy nurse, meets dashing ace Army fighter pilot Rafe (Ben Affleck), the two fall madly in love, only to be separated abruptly when he is called upon to help fight the war in Europe. Unforeseen circumstances lead Evelyn into the arms of Danny (Josh Hartnett), another fighter pilot and Rafe's best friend since childhood. In the meantime, the Japanese military is planning the surprise early morning raid on Hawaii that will pull the United States into World War II. Spectacular special effects vividly recreate the attack in devastating detail as bombs explode, torpedoes shoot through the water, and bullets fly, shaking tranquil Pearl Harbor to its core. Bay deftly captures the patriotism and the loss of innocence of the young men and women who were suddenly thrust into the war. Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jon Voight, Alec Baldwin and Mako also star in this tribute to both the fallen and the survivors of one of the most horrific tragedies ever to occur on American soil. [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Alec Baldwin, Jamie King, Jon Voight, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Sizemore, Catherine Kellner, Leland Orser, Michael Shannon, Andrew Bryniarski, Guy Torry, Matt Davis, Jennifer Garner, Jesse James, William Fichtner
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Randall Wallace
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Reviews for 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.
It blows up as good as anything movie technology has yet detonated, and it leaves you feeling absolutely, incontrovertibly numb.
Such a bloodless picture that it neither insults nor honors the memory of these soldiers.
A starchy, overpowering helping of red, whiete and blue kitsch served up with piping-hot bombast.
The bulk of the three-hour epic is third-rate schmaltz that pays only lip service to history.
An indulgently paced three hours, the picture is nearly painstaking in its traditionalism.
The attack sequence in Pearl Harbor shows technical smarts to spare. Where matters of emotional and political truth are concerned, it's crude and jingoistic beyond compare.
Most of it is just mediocre bull, the same sort of empty bluster we've come to expect from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay when the weather warms.
The date that will live in infamy has been reduced to a movie that is mired in mediocrity.
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