Pearl Harbor is a blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise.

Full Review | 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 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 28, 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | 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.

Full Review | 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.

| May 27, 2014

Three hours and three minutes of guff and goo about the nobility of killing and/or being killed for arbitrary reasons.

| May 27, 2014

There's no dismissing the film, if only because it offers another long, loud example of how Hollywood remains the hagiographic spinmeister of American war history.

| May 27, 2014

The centerpiece is the attack. For 50 minutes, the filmmakers unleash nonstop eye candy.

| May 27, 2014

This violent movie is worth seeing, but only once.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2010

The bombs explode brilliantly but the story is a bust in "Pearl Harbor."

Full Review | Jul 22, 2008

Brawny but brainless, Pearl Harbor is another bloated, irresponsible example of history according to Disney-a lame juggernaut that falsifies the facts, assaults the senses and leaves you blind, deaf and soulless.

| Apr 27, 2007

This bunk is history.

| Feb 9, 2006

It reduced one of the great tragedies this country has endured into a viscerally exciting video game strung together with a love story so banal a 온라인카지노추천 soap opera would be hard pressed to touch it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 27, 2003

A historical cartoon, a bit of fluff that neither much knows nor cares about the context of the events of December 7, 1941.

| Original Score: D+ | May 9, 2002

For my money a much better heartbreaker, thrillmaker and tear-tweaker than Titanic.

| Nov 16, 2001

The woe and horror of the event is steamrolled by a surplus of special and digitized effects.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2001

Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale give performances of such somnambulist awfulness that the three of them achieve an almost zen-like state of woodenness.

| Aug 10, 2001

Bay fails to bring any insight to his treatment of the event.

| Jul 5, 2001

Arrive late, leave early, go home satisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2001