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.
27 October 1953, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
20 October 1978, Winter Park, Florida, USA
2 January 1968, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
27 November 1956, Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
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 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
Pearl Harbor is a blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise.
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 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 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 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
Bloated and boring, Pearl Harbor is a collection of war-movie clichés.
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.
May 27, 2014
Bay seems temperamentally incapable of holding a shot for much more than five seconds.
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
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.
