Pearl Harbor PG 13
Michael Bay, the guy who brought Bad
Boys and Armageddon returns in this lavish special effects heavy story based
loosely on the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Tacked on ridiculous
love story adds to an overlong, convoluted mess. (They didn't need one). The
great visuals of stuff exploding and sinking don't add up to a full story, even
at over 3 hours. Affleck really tries, but he doesn't have a lot to work with.
Leave it to Hollywood to have a Japanese Zero chasing a convertible car
riddling it with gunfire, and Affleck doesn't even get hit. Then leave it to
them to make a glaring error where they somehow train Affleck’s pilot to go on
the counterstrike in Japan as a bomber crewman. WW2 veterans laughed at this, especially
my Dad, who was in the air corps, who said it was impossible for them to just
decide to retrain a pilot to be a bomber. It never happened. Also, Affleck is
too tall. He wouldn't fit in the turret. Well, Bay is silly, but his movie
tries too hard to be great, and fails on every logical level. Entertaining puff,
but not nearly as cool as it tries to be, or accurate. (Tora Tora Tora is a
much better movie). Review by Adam Browne
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