Pearl Harbor

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.

Cast

Ben Affleck

as Rafe McCawley

Josh Hartnett

as Danny Walker

Kate Beckinsale

as Evelyn Johnson

William Lee Scott

as Billy

Greg Zola

as Anthony Fusco

Ewen Bremner

as Red

Alec Baldwin

as Doolittle

Jaime King

as Betty

Catherine Kellner

as Barbara

Jennifer Garner

as Sandra

Reviews

John Chard

OK! Lets not beat around the bush, it's historically suspicious, badly written, badly cast and clearly an hour too long. A splendid "support cast" are wasted as Michael Bay and his production team think they can produce some sort of Titanic of the Skies like epic and fail in their objective. By the ...

CinemaSerf

After about half an hour, I started to wonder if this film was going to take as long to get going as a pearl takes to form in an oyster! It's a close run thing, as it must be around eighty minutes in before the Japanese come to the rescue of the audience and introduce some action into this over-long...

Wuchak

**_A fine drama/romance combined with great war action_** "Pearl Harbor" (2001) is a Titanic-ized version of the tragic events of Pearl Harbor—a fabricated drama/romance hooking the viewer into the deceitful attack of December 7, 1941. It's 85 minutes before the attack occurs so the drama/roma...

RalphRahal

Pearl Harbor is one of those movies that gets a lot of hate, but honestly, I don’t think it deserves all of it. People go in expecting a war film and get a romance drama instead, which seems to be where most of the criticism comes from. The plot focuses more on a love triangle than the historical at...

GenerationofSwine

I think the best review on this was "An American love triangle interrupted by a bombing" or something along those lines and that pretty much sums it up. The action is pretty cool, but... that's all you get....

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