And the climax may not leave a dry eye in the house, but that's only because of all the hysterical The battle scenes have no emotional impact. Just about nothing in 'Pearl Harbor' works. Harbor' goes wrong in so many ways that I can easily imagine it being the subject of a complete film school course on how not to make a movie.ĭespite the huge wads of cash up on the screen and impeccable production values, Sometimes it is easy to pinpoint just where a movie goes wrong, but 'Pearl And that Michael Bay deserves all the grief he's gotten for this film. In fact, I'm left with the same exact feeling I remember having when I first suffered through 'Pearl Harbor' in the theater - that this was 183 minutes of my life that I will never, ever Watching it again for this Blu-ray release five years on, I'm sorry to say that, yes, it really is that bad. But the question remains: is 'Pearl Harbor' To his 'Heaven's Gate.' While the film ultimately hauled in strong box office worldwide, it was eviscerated by the critics and (perhaps more importantly) failed to capture theĬultural zeitgeist of the time in the way that both Bay and the studio must have hoped. The now-infamous would-be blockbuster go from being Bay's 'Titanic' By now, making fun of Michael Bay's 'Pearl Harbor' is just too easy - it only took the span of the film's opening weekend to see
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