Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

cameronstuartmain So what did I think of Pearl Harbor? Awful, just awful. The only reason I'm giving this movie two stars is because the effects were good, yet the 1970 classic Tora! Tora! Tora! did a better job with no CGI, but with real fire, explosions, and models. Pearl Harbor gets some things correct, but most of it was wrong. Here are some examplesADMIRAL YAMAMOTO NEVER COMMANDED THE JAPANESE STRIKE FORCE. So, first off, the movie shows Admiral Yamamoto on the aircraft carrier Akagi. This is wrong because Yamamoto was in Japan during the operation. The Striking Force was commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. While Yamamoto planned the attack, he did not command the fleet that carried it out.BEN AFFLECK IS FIGHTING WITH THE BRITISH, EVEN THOUGH THE AMERICANS WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THE WAR YET.Affleck's character is fighting in the Battle of Britain with RAF fighter pilots. One, he is fighting a Spitfire or Hurricane with POLISH markings on it, because there were Polish volunteers in the air war, and Poland was invaded at the beginning of the war, which is why the war started, so the Polish could fire at the Germans. Two, America was not in the war until after Pearl Harbor, American pilots only started fighting with British pilots until September of 1942! So doesn't their need to be a state of war between the US and the Nazis for Affleck to be firing at German planes?THE HOSPITALS WERE NOT FIRED ON DURING THE ATTACK.During the attack, the town and hospital are strafed and bombed by the Japanese. Honolulu was never strafed during the attack! Yes, it is true that civilian fire trucks were strafed and some civilian firefighters were killed... NO NURSES WERE KILLED! I was just very mad and angry to see the nurses weeping over their friend the nurses death, not because she was killed by the Japanese, but because it never happened.THE QUEEN MARY WAS A TROOPSHIP IN 1941, NOT AN OCEAN LINER.Affleck and whats her face steal a police boat and get on the RMS Queen Mary. The Queen Mary was one of the fastest ships in the world through the late 1930's, throughout the 40's, and in the early 50's. Today, she is a hotel and tourist attraction in Long Beach California. Just one problem... When the party on board is supposed to be happening, the ship was a troop transport, transporting troops across the Atlantic to Europe. PEOPLE!!!! THERE IS A WAR GOING ON!!! ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE A MILITARY VESSEL FROM COMBAT AND SAY "HEY! LETS HAVE A PARTY!" They could have done those scenes in say, a nightclub in NYC.So... Did you people not do any research into the war? You combined two Japanese admirals into one, sent an American pilot to fight in Europe, which was against the rules of war, killed a nurse and bombed a hospital to make us cry I guess? And you take a military vessel from service on war duties for a party.If you people want a better Pearl Harbor movie, watch Tora! Tora! Tora! from 1970.

ygc-21179 This is by far the worst film ever. 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666

Joel Weymouth This is is not as historically accurate as Tora, Tora, Tora, it is a love story set in Pearl Harbor/Doolittle raid. Like all "dramatizations", there is poetic license to make the story more interesting. From a dramatic perspective it generates an emotional response. Is not that the purpose of art? The Last Supper by Da Vinci is not accurate to history, but it is not less art. Those who pick apart this story because of inaccuracies I am afraid are motivated by Michael Bay's politics. That is unfortunate.Remember, this was homage to the 60th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor and it was a tremendous effort and worth watching. To feel good about America and the spirit and dedication that made America great.BTW, to the reviewer that did not call the Doolittle raid a victory, needs to read the Two Ocean War by Samuel Eliot Morrison or "Blue Skies and Blood" by Edwin Hoyt or "Incredible Victory" by Walter Lord. The Doolittle raid made the victories at Coral Sea and Midway.What is ironic: Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack that was unprovoked and a catastrophe for the attacker in the end. About 4 months after this release America was again a victim of a sneak attack that killed about the same number of people as Pearl Harbor. A major difference with 9/11 is the 9/11 attack was televised real-time. The movie Pearl Harbor shows the emasculation that has taken place to the United States. Had Pearl Harbor been filmed real time, the Japanese race would be extinct today. The fact that Americans do not have the same resolve in 2001 is an interesting truth. Its rightness or wrongness will be judged in 2061 when they do movie about the WTC for its 60th anniversary of the attack.

guszak Where does one begin in trying to describe this joke of a movie. Do we start with the ridiculous "southern" accents of the two lead characters, accents that they did not have when the flashback scenes showed them as kids? How about the frosted hair of army pilot Affleck? Maybe the fact that 3/4 of the movie is shot in slow motion, for no apparent reason? Or Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Fred Sanford impersonation and celebratory dance after he shoots down a zeke, while countless other planes continue to fly over? Maybe we should deal with the numerous historical inaccuracies, such as the Japanese strafing a hospital, which never happened? How about Jon Voight's hilarious and over the top performance as FDR? This "film" should have been burned and the director shot. I want a congressional investigation into how this got made. One would have to massively edit this piece just to get it to horrible status. Not probably, the worst movie ever made.