I went to see this movie with low overall expectations, knowing that it was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer who I knew was somehow connected to ’’Armageddon’’, which I thought was an absolutely horrendous American patriotic bullcrap movie. I was hoping it would be pretty empty and bearable leaving me free to ignore it and enjoy the action scenes, which looked pretty impressive in the trailer. But it is not even that good.The basic plot revolves around a love triangle with the bombing of Pearl Harbor as the backdrop.
This film had little good in it. The acting was sub-par, to say the least. Ben Affleck has had good performances, such as Dogma and Good Will Hunting. He has also had bad ones, such as Armageddon. This one, though, was the worst I’ve seen. Of course, I don’t know if anyone could act very well with the screenplay he was given. Josh Hartnett wasn’t much better, but he was evenly more poorly written. Kate Beckinsale just wasn’t at all convincing.
The storyline was awful. The love-triangle story that emerged was the most melodramatic and unnecessary plot that I have perhaps ever seen. This film was searching for tears, but it only made me wince with pain.
The battle itself was too long and too uninvolved. Was it me, or did I just see the same thing for 40 minutes? All I saw was people dying, and all I felt was boredom. Sure, people dying and things blowing up were what they saw too...but they felt it, they endured it, and they were angered by it. This should be felt by the audience, too (I was actually feeling guilty for not caring that much for the battle as I was watching it.)..and the last thing I was thinking about was enduring more. I was becoming angry...but not at the attack.
Pearl Harbour is a Titanic ( Read my review on the same). It wants to reduce a tragic disaster to an entertainment blockbuster. I guess such movies should be banned.