Pearl Harbor
Danny Walker and Rafe McCawley have been friends since childhood. They learned to fly together and they both join the Army Air Corps as pilots well before the US enters World War II. In the midst of this love triangle comes to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with Rafe and Danny eventually assigned to Col. Jimmy Doolittle';s raid on Tokyo.
13 June 1965, Whittier, California, USA
19 December 1949, Fullerton, California, USA
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
18 June 1946, Detroit, Michigan, USA
29 June 1925, Olaa, Hawaii, USA
17 January 1947, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
24 April 1971, England, UK
13 December 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 12, 2016
...a typically bloated Michael Bay production that squanders its few positive attributes over the course of a ludicrously padded-out running time...
May 28, 2014
As impressive as the physical verisimilitude is, it only accentuates the contrast with the banalities of a script that lacks any fully developed characters.
May 28, 2014
The effect of watching a Michael Bay film is indistinguishable from having a large, pointy lump of rock drop on your head. His new picture, Pearl Harbor, maintains the mood.
May 27, 2014
Bay seems temperamentally incapable of holding a shot for much more than five seconds.
May 27, 2014
For all the 118 actors listed, the movie offers almost no sense of authentic humanity. The faces the filmmakers plaster on their characters are as flat and stereotyped as those on war-recruitment posters.
May 28, 2014
The best way to see the movie is as I did: expecting nothing and being pleasantly surprised, and strangely moved, by Mr. Bay's audacity in filming his lovers in end-of-the-world close-ups, however briefly.
May 27, 2014
Leave it to Bay and Bruckheimer to reduce one of America's biggest military tragedies into a three-hour avalanche of Kodak moments, and one of America's defining crises into a facile exercise in fake uplift.
May 27, 2014
Pearl Harbor is a bomb, make no mistake. But the movie is such a noisy, persistent bomb that it is guaranteed to draw a crowd.
January 02, 2016
A tepid, wannabe-Titanic love story, under the stewardship of a man whose career has ranged from the emotional depth of an 11-year-old boy all the way up to a 13-year-old boy.
May 27, 2014
Weaknesses of plot and characterisation are only amplified by the film's unwieldy size and patriotic portent, and the script is toe-curlingly bad.
May 28, 2014
Pearl Harbor is a blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise.
May 27, 2014
Bloated and boring, Pearl Harbor is a collection of war-movie clichés.
