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  Review by DirkH ★ 29

  Now why did he have to go and stick such an incredible and well shot action sequence in such a painfully bad movie?

  It's like serving caviar with a deep fried Mars bar.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★

  There’s a spectacular chunk in the middle of this movie, the actual attack on Pearl Harbor, that rates with any war film I’ve seen. Shame about the rest. Michael Bay should make Michael Bay movies, not James Cameron movies.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★ 10

  The back-to-back popularity of Titanic and Saving Private Ryan while Bay was flying high on Armageddon briefly gave him a false idea of what type of filmmaker he is ranked among and the confidence to cash everything in on nonsensically applying his gloriously tasteless action style to real history in a way that's so brain-flattening and divorced from context the only way you could possibly even stay awake during it is if you somehow buy into the 2 and a half hours of bizarrely nostalgic, expensive Hallmark nothingness that surrounds it. "Do you ever wonder if this war's gonna catch up with us?" Excruciating.

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  Review by Natalie

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  why would you choose ben affleck over josh hartnett

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  Review by Tentin Quarantino ☭ ★★★ 6

  "I think World War Two just started!"

  Yeah, 3 god damn years ago, you American fuck.

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  Review by russman ★★ 5

  I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor.
  I miss you more than that movie missed the point, and that's an awful lot girl.
  And now, now you've gone away, and all I'm trying to say is
  Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.

  I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school. He was terrible in that film.
  I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part. He's way better than Ben Affleck.
  And now, all I can think about is your smile, and that shitty movie too.
  Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you.

  Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
  I guess Pearl Harbor sucked just a little bit more than I miss you.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★½ 1

  Needed more Michael Shannon.

  Also, this movie is insane.

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  Review by Sienna D ★½ 3

  The first time that I saw this movie was back in year nine of high school, I guess our history teacher was having a bad week so he took it out on us by making us watch this movie. I'm from Australia so all of the overt American "we're number one" sentiment was mostly lost on us, and all that was left was a bullshit love story and 45 minutes of explosions.

  Wow, this is really bad. I had honestly forgotten what a travesty to story telling, cinema and HISTORY this is. There are a couple of decent shots during the Pearl Harbour attack sequence but they don't make up for the hour and a half of the awful, creepy,…

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  Review by Josiah Morgan

  i did not realize this movie was three hours long when i started it

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 3

  This is a stunningly fetishized pulp history/mythology, kind of a feature length version of that Pat Benatar video for Shadows Of The Night. But no matter what you think of his skills, Bay's achilles heel may turn out to be his envy of Cameron's veneer of respectability. The trivializing awesome-ization of a tragedy (all good taste aside, the attack is a spectacular series of sequences) is far less problematic than the baldfaced four-quadrant calculation, a much more egregious rejection of Bay's own strengths. It's a mistake to couch the sincere Rockwell nostalgia in a "Johnny Goes to War" B-picture homage; that's a totally extraneous layer of ironic distance, a needless justification for the plastic perfection aesthetic.

  BAD BOYS II is the glorious temper tantrum that followed this film's relative public rejection.

  Summer 2001 may have been the last time you could escape with straight-faced dialogue like "God help anyone who goes to war with America."

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  Review by Michael James ★★½

  The entire 40 odd minute Pearl Harbour war sequence was literally jaw dropping stuff with visual storytelling at its best. But leaving it aside, the overstretched melodrama really tests your patience with uninteresting characters and romance proceedings. I am still rating it average just for that brilliantly executed repeat worthy action episode.

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  Review by sophie ★½ 4

  need to have the same unfounded confidence as michael bay, who evidently watched titanic and thought "oh i could do that"