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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Sep 3, 2006
Pros: Special affects.
Cons: Acting. Plot. Lame dialogue. Crazy camera angles. Historical inaccuracies.
Summary: The best I can tell the film Pearl Harbor is supposed to be a love story revolving around a tragic historical event. It helps if such films have solid scripts that make the story believable though, and that the basic historical facts are portrayed ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 24, 2011
Pros: It received awards. The actual attack scenes are exceptional, no strings seen.
Cons: It lasted three looooong hours
Summary: I am not a fan of war movies and most romances better be really good, this was bad on the war depiction although quite real, and lousy on the love appeal, a triangle, OY VEY ! Pearl Harbor is not overly romantic, nor cheesy just ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 6, 2011
Pros: None at all! Not even with the action sequences.
Cons: Everything that possibly can go wrong in a movie.
Summary: By this point most people have made up their mind on Michael Bay's 2001 "movie" Pearl Harbor. This is for the few that haven't. I put the word "movie" in quotation marks, because this is less a movie than a sorry excuse for what's supposed to be a movie. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 20, 2010
Pros: A handful of shots--sailors trapped on the Arizona, for example. Little else.
Cons: It's awful, one of the worst movies ever made.
Summary: It's hard to count the number of ways and specific elements of "Pearl Harbor" that I hate but I'm going to try.Ben AffleckUnbelievable storylineAlec BaldwinThe computer-generated battle scenes (most)Ben AffleckThe ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 17, 2009
Pros: Exciting CGIs. Good acting. Nice evocation of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Cons: Formulaic love story. Distortion of history.
Summary: Well, it had a monstrous budget and professionally competent actors, but it's not worth much mention. I suppose it accomplished its goal, which was to use computer-generated effects and make money.Its chief utility may be to introduce kids ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 24, 2009
Pros: Josh Hartnett.Soundtrack.
Cons: too long.love triangles.Sad ending.
Summary: I was expecting a lot of action. Okay, there was action, but mainly focused on the romance plot of the movie. I don't think it really portrayed the true events of Pearl Harbor as much as it could have.I know they were probably trying to get all ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 30, 2008
Pros: Great acting, fantastic special effects and action scenes, great photography and music
Cons: A bit too long
Summary: Quick Facts: Genre: Historical Drama Viewing Format: Blu-ray Run Time: 183 minutes Special Features: Yes Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale Director: Michael Bay ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 10, 2008
Pros: None
Cons: All
Summary: Ugh! My daughter's history teacher required the students to watch this movie. Go figure. The teacher thought Ben Affleck is hot. The teacher is gross and the movie is gross. Is that the best recommendation for a historical movie that the teacher could ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 3, 2007
Pros: Kate Beckinsale, attack on Pear Harbor, Kate Beckinsale. Cuba Gooding Jnr., Kate Beckinsale.
Cons: Syrupy love story, overblown Doolittle Raid, ridiculous ending, Ben Affleck.
Summary: Movies that mix fictional characters with real life events don't always quite pull the trick off. Because making films is a business, and because sappy love stories or tales of heroism fill cinemas, it is easy in stories such as Pearl Harbor or Titanic ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 4, 2006
Pros: Hartnett, Gooding Jr, some decent action scenes and humour
Cons: Tedious drawn-out battle scenes, Affleck, Beckinsale wrong for her role
Summary: I went round a friend’s house the other day. She wanted to lend me some DVD’s - Secret Window which I did want to see, Flightplan
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 25, 2005
Pros: Visuals, Action, Cinematography, Music.
Cons: Love Story, Overlong, Script, Direction, Acting.
Summary: Pearl Harbor (2001) Ben Affleck as Rafe McCauley Josh Hartnett as Danny Walker Kate Beckinsale as Evelyn Cuba Gooding Jr. as Dorie Miller Jon Voight as Franklin D. Roosevelt Alec Baldwin as Lt. Col. Doolittle Tom Sizemore as Earl Ewen Bremner ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 20, 2005
Pros: It eventually ended
Cons: Boring, acting, direction, score, unimaginable cliche
Summary: I am something of a history buff. Not only that I am a big W.W.2 film buff. The Great War lends itself perfectly to cinema, with interesting characters, important events and truly epic warfare. Many W.W.2 movies such as Enemy At the Gates are ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 4, 2004
Pros: Some nice special effects work by George Lucas' ILM shop.
Cons: Where do I start? Awful screenplay. Bad directing. Terrible sets.
Summary: "Oh, James Cameron, what have you wrought?" Those were the words that echoed through my brain as I walked out of the Dolphin 19 multiplex after watching Michael Bay's film Pearl Harbor on opening night three years ago. I had planned on going since ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 7, 2004
Pros: musical score, amazing special effects
Cons: poor script, pathetic language, wooden performances
Summary: December 7th, 1941 … It was, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt so bluntly put it, a day that would live in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor over sixty years ago was less of an attack on the American people themselves as it was an attack on our ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 25, 2003
Pros: Visual reference to the Pearl Harbor Bombing
Cons: The other 300 minutes!
Summary: If one could gather a few stalks of broccoli together and have them write a script they would probably have written something slightly more interesting than Pearl Harbor. Don’t get me wrong this movie is successful on many levels, it succeeds in ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 16, 2003
Pros: Too many.
Cons: A few bad lines.
Summary: This movie has been brutally criticized and I'm still trying to figure out why! What's wrong with this movie? There's horrible movies that have been hailed by critics and audiences and I don't get it. Like ya it's all a matter of opinion anyway right? ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 16, 2003
Pros: Just awesome.
Cons: No cons!!!!!!!!
Summary: Two little boys, they protect each other, they're friends with each other, and they grow up together. These two young boys eventually grown into well raised and manored men. As their lives progress they both join the military where they are part of the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 14, 2003
Pros: Good Effects
Cons: Bad acting, bad love story among other things.
Summary: I had very high expectations for this movie and anticipated it for a long time. When I saw it I was disappointed with the plot and acting. Although the effects are good they don't make up for the horrible storyline. Seeing the characters listen to ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 23, 2002
Pros: A great Movie to watch on a Friday nigh
Cons: A little long
Summary: This movie is about the bombing of pearl harbor, on December 7,1941. Our American Armed Forces had a lot of our troops and ships stationed. The Japanese bombed and killed over 3000 officers and civilians. In the process they sunk our battleships, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 7, 2002
Pros: Absolutely superb special effects, genuine original aircraft.
Cons: This picture swept the "Razzie" awards for lousy acting, most of which were deserved.
Summary: As I write this my calendar reminds me that this is December 7th. It also reminds me that exactly 61 years ago today I was sitting in the neighborhood theater and watching the Fox Movietone News. There was some footage on the war in Europe, a brief bit ... read more
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