This is supposed to be a World War 2 based movie. Its the sort of movie anyone would expect to be an accurate enough dramatisation of events that actually happened.

Instead what we get is an attempt to make another Titanic by including a love triangle that is dominant over the whole history aspect. It just doesn't seem right.

Being a historic epic, they could have cut down on the whole love story and focused more on what would have been relevant such as the Japanese preparation of the attack and the situation President Roosevelt was finding himself in. The sequence of the actual attack on Pearl Harbour was spectacular! Perhaps if they extended it and made it a more major part of the film it would have been more worthy. Another major flaw with this movie is that after the attack sequence the movie dragged on for another hour trying to give an epilogue which was totally irrelevant.

I reckon if these were taken aboard, then Pearl Harbor would have been a much better movie and perhaps would not have flopped at the box office.

Unlike some other war movies, Gallipoli, Full Metal Jacket etc Pearl Harbor seems to be more focused on entertaining rather than deep characterisation of a morales tale.

So not looking for the answers to those deep questions regarding war, this is a movie of love, loss, action and entertainment.

I'm not sure fun is the right word so lets go with enjoyable.

Its a long film that keeps you engaged and interested the entire time.

What more can we really ask?

As Ebert put it. It's crazy how bad this is. And extremely disrespectful.

It's not even a decent love triangle. The lady can't decide between the two guys because they are interchangeable. Plus, the movie throws in the Doolittle Raid to make Americans feel better I guess in case they didn't know how the war ended and to tie up the love triangle.

Pearl Harbor is a rather Earth changing event that could support many movies without a lousy love triangle of pretty people.

If they wanted to do a love story around a historic event, ala Titanic, they should have done it with the Doolittle Raid alone. The nature of the mission and how it played out could easily support a love story without being garish.

Plus, the Doolittle Raid deserves its own feature, not tacked onto the end of a movie like a forgotten coda.