Pearl Harbor (2001) Movie Info
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Pearl Harbor (2001) |
| Director | Michael Bay |
| Screenplay Writer | Randall Wallace |
| Based on Novel by | — (Original screenplay inspired by real historical events) |
| Lead Actors | Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale |
| Cast | Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Alec Baldwin, William Lee Scott |
| Genre | Action, Drama, Romance, War |
| Release Date | May 25, 2001 (United States) |
| Duration | 3h 3m (183 minutes) |
| Budget | ~$140 million |
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Country | United States |
| Box Office (Worldwide) | ~$449.2 million |
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Summary
Two lifelong friends join the army, learn about life, love and the making of an embarrassingly awful movie.
Review
Where do we begin? With the awful acting, the drawn out, cliched and boring storyline or the morally reprehensible concept behind the film? Let’s work backwards the movie was billed as an epic, almost an homage to the day that lives in infamy in American history. Instead, Pearl Harbor exploited a tragedy in which thousands of lives were lost. It used this horrific event as the background the attack took up about 20 minutes of the approximately six-hour long snoozefest of a trite love triangle. It could have been any war, during any time period between any two soldiers (Affleck and Hartnett) and the nurse they both love (Beckinsale), but the creators of this crap decided to capitalize on the well known events of December 7, 1941, in order to create hype and make money. Shame on them.
Then there was the acting. It sucked. Affleck can carry a movie about as well as a horse can carry Louie Anderson. And Hartnett should take acting lessons from Keanu Reeves. These two may have changed facial expressions three times throughout the movie maybe. If the film had billed itself as a typical summer blockbuster with a lot of explosions and elaborate sets, it would qualify as simply “awful.” But it deserves its status as just plain bad and receives nary a beer because it pretended to be an epic for the ages, a heart wrenching look back at an American calamity that turned out to be an insult to those that fought in the war and a slap in the face to anyone who actually purchased tickets to these sappy charade.
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