Pearl Harbor (2001)
Runtime: 3 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Alec Baldwin
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 19, 2006
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Blue BD Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
- Introductions - 1. Michael Bay - Director
- Production Interviews - 1. Cast
- Featurettes - 1. "Journey to the Screen: The Making of PEARL HARBOR"
- 2. "Return to the USS Arizona"
- 3. "The Attack on Pearl Harbor"
- 4. "Pearl Harbor's Unsung Heroes"
- 5. Music Video - Faith Hill - "There You'll Be"
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Reviews
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.
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
I left with one thought: the bombers may have hit their targets, but this film misses the mark.
Ambitious, reverent and beautifully photographed though it is, Pearl Harbor ultimately is not equal to its aspirations.
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