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Drama
Understood that many of the soldiers in WWII (or any battle for that matter) experienced alot of loss on the home front with women but this movie is a painful love story for the first 90 minutes. If you don't mind watching Ben Affleck cry then you'll love it. The battle scenes in Europe are highly dramatized (although the actual Pearl Harbor attack was quite detailed IMHO). Plenty of DVD extra's if thats your thing, but as far as a good war movie goes, Pearl falls very short.

Three stars because I like the effort and the effects are stunning, but if you want an accurate recreation of Dec. 7, 1941 buy Tora Tora Tora.

Lean as a Romance--Quite Chilling in the Cinematography!
I think other reviewers really do miss the point--especially the Europeans. Hey, guys, this is an event that happened to America! Isn't it only natural that it be shown from an American point of view? Polish or Russian movies (and English ones!) would show their respective viewpoints, too.

That being said, the romance really is a little trite. What's worse, there's little chemistry between the principals and the girl. Because of too little character development, you really don't care much "who gets the girl." I found it more interesting to ponder the male-male bonding, however; are we viewers supposed to detect some homoeroticism?


But the real strengths of this movie are 1) the battle scenes and 2) the three-strip Technicolor. This was the last movie ever made in Technicolor; one must see the colors to believe them. Brilliant blues and greens (and yellows and oranges!) jump startingly off the screen at the viewer. The battle scenes and the exterior shots in Hawaii promenade this Technicolor most prominently; has a beach shot ever been photographed more beautifully, or a battle shot so realistically?

This movie is worth seeing for the cinematography alone. Forget the silly romance.

An Insult to any Seaman of WWII
Dear God! but I'm glad I'd not seen this abomination earlier and wish I'd never seen it at all. The title is "Pearl Harbor"--which was a NAVY tragedy--but the plot focuses on the trifling issues of the (then) Army Air Force. Had they titled it "Dolittle's Raid", it might more accurately reflect the wretched production. My father, who was on the West Virginia that day (and was represented without name in the movie) must be spinning in his grave. History it is not, nor anything like unto. Entertaining--possibly to those of low or no standards of historical accuracy--but to pretend it reflects anything whatever about the tragedy at Pearl Harbor is a farce worthy only of Hollywood in its cups. Had I the money I would buy up every copy, including originals, and destroy them as a tribute to my father and his NAVY friends who died that day and were passed over by this movie that Sucketh Mightily.

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