Rotten
Pearl Harbor is a blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Pearl Harbor
It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.
2001 · 3h 3m · PG-13
Action, History, Romance, War
Directed by
Michael Bay
Overview
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Director and cast
- Michael Bay Director
- Ben Affleck as Capt. Rafe McCawley
- Josh Hartnett as Capt. Danny Walker
- Kate Beckinsale as Evelyn Johnson
- Cuba Gooding Jr. as Petty Officer Doris Miller
- Jon Voight as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Alec Baldwin Cast
- Tom Sizemore Cast
- William Lee Scott Cast
- Ewen Bremner Cast
- Greg Zola Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
24%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The best way to see the movie is as I did: expecting nothing and being pleasantly surprised, and strangely moved, by Mr. Bay's audacity in filming his lovers in end-of-the-world close-ups, however briefly.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
The effect of watching a Michael Bay film is indistinguishable from having a large, pointy lump of rock drop on your head. His new picture, Pearl Harbor, maintains the mood.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
Pearl Harbor is a bomb, make no mistake. But the movie is such a noisy, persistent bomb that it is guaranteed to draw a crowd.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Rotten
For all the 118 actors listed, the movie offers almost no sense of authentic humanity. The faces the filmmakers plaster on their characters are as flat and stereotyped as those on war-recruitment posters.
David Germain, Associated Press
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