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From:Ben Affleck , Alec Baldwin , Kate Beckinsale , Colm Feore , William Fichtner , AFFLECK,BEN , Touchstone / Disney ,
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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Good action/romance film , 2007-12-25
Viewers expecting a "serious" docudrama type movie will be disappointed. Comparing this to Saving Private Ryan is unfair as well. Don't expect to come away with some grand enlightment or new perspective about WWII. However, for those seeking light entertainment within an action/adventure film (and a little romance) should be satisfied. I personally found this film entertaining and not too heavy handed -- or takes itself too seriously like some some other more supposedly "realistic" and cynical war-related movies out there. I also like the overall look and feel to this film - kindda reminds me of a bygone (1950s?) era in which innocence was lost. And though this wasn't the actors' most memorable performances, I didn't find that it was bad either. In the end, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2002 for best sound, visual effects, best song and winning for best sound effects editing.
2 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 A prime example of 21st century movie making at its worst, 2007-11-26
Put extremely attractive young men and women into the fashions of 1941 but with the moral attitudes of the 21st century, add special effects, completely throw out any basis in actual fact in order to get an emotional reaction from the audience (here the film succeeds for all the wrong reasons), add a few rousing speeches, and you have Pearl Harbor. The only good thing about this film are the special effects, and even then I prefer the more primitively done Tora,Tora,Tora from thirty years before because it actually tells the truth about what led up to the raid in painstaking detail, actually taking the time to show what is going on with both the Japanese and the Americans and the mistakes and misjudgements made on both sides. If you want steamy love scenes and nicely done explosions, watch this film. If you want to learn something about history watch Tora, Tora, Tora. You won't regret it.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 A date that will live in infamy..., 2007-11-18
I know there are some negative reviews of this movie and I respect them. I saw this for the first time on DVD and nothing compares with the horror of that attack in 1941 sending America into World War 2. Some of the attack scenes send you direct into the face of battle. Graphic, gripping and so close to being there. Not bad a movie.
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Bang! Golly! Ka-Pow!, 2007-11-17
Pearl Harbor is fantastic entertainment - fun, lively, it's an escape worthy of the hassle of popping a bunch of popcorn and setting up the home entertainment "just right" for two hours of mental candy.
But they should have named it something else. I watched this in the theater and felt like standing up and waving in front of the screen - "NO! NO! That's not right! It wasn't like that!"
If filmmakers want to be inspired by history to produce schmaltz and cheese, fine - just don't name it after an actual event in an attempt to legitimize it.
The combat scenes defy physics, the portrayal of historical figures is overwhelming (Jon Voight's portrayal of FDR would have been made complete had he stood up, broke out of his clothes like the Incredible Hulk and shot death rays from his fists) and the history, suspect. For one, I am reasonably confident WWII battles weren't broadcast "live" over radio.
Though it's nowhere near the Golly! Wow! Bang! Whiz! of Pearl Harbor, Tora Tora Tora is five times the film - accurate, balanced and passionate. Buy that. Leave Pearl Harbor for the people who stand in line at "Dukes of Hazard" conventions to get their photos taken next to a genuine plaster cast of the General Lee's tire. (YoooHOO!)
I'd have liked Pearl Harbor more if they would have added a giant laser-blasting sea beast or maybe brain-headed aliens....and then named it, "The Giant Sea Beast From World War Two."
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Pearl Harbor is a classic movie , 2007-11-07
this movie has graphically brought to life what really happened on that fatefull day, in an eliquent and poinant way for all generations to remember.
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