Based on true events, Pearl Harbor follows Danny Walker and Rafe McCawley, two American childhood friends who took part in the World War II as pilots.
1 December 1975, Newport News, Virginia, USA
2 June 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 September 1972, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA
27 April 1966, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
19 September 1975, California, USA
24 November 1973, Groves, Texas, USA
24 April 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA
27 October 1955, Everett, Washington, USA
16 June 1975, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
23 July 1961, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
13 December 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
26 February 1963, Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
20 April 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 February 1971, Taipei, Taiwan
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April 12, 2016
...a typically bloated Michael Bay production that squanders its few positive attributes over the course of a ludicrously padded-out running time...
May 28, 2014
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.
May 27, 2014
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.
May 28, 2014
Pearl Harbor is a blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise.
May 27, 2014
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.
May 27, 2014
Bloated and boring, Pearl Harbor is a collection of war-movie clichés.
May 27, 2014
Bay seems temperamentally incapable of holding a shot for much more than five seconds.
May 28, 2014
As impressive as the physical verisimilitude is, it only accentuates the contrast with the banalities of a script that lacks any fully developed characters.
January 02, 2016
A tepid, wannabe-Titanic love story, under the stewardship of a man whose career has ranged from the emotional depth of an 11-year-old boy all the way up to a 13-year-old boy.
May 27, 2014
Weaknesses of plot and characterisation are only amplified by the film's unwieldy size and patriotic portent, and the script is toe-curlingly bad.
May 28, 2014
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.
May 27, 2014
Leave it to Bay and Bruckheimer to reduce one of America's biggest military tragedies into a three-hour avalanche of Kodak moments, and one of America's defining crises into a facile exercise in fake uplift.
