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Title: Horrible
Review: The actors don't seem to know they're living in 1941. Ben Affleck just mouths his lines. The only time I cared about any of the people in the film was the anonymous sailors and nurses who died in the attack. What a hackneyed plot. They wrote better "B" picture scripts in the 40's. Where's Artie Shaw?Where's jive talk? Where's the radio shows? Parts of the attack are quite emotionally moving without being too manipulative which is the only reason I gave it 1 star. If you're interested in the Doolittle Raid get "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" which has excellent SFX for its time and is a true story with first rate actors and direction. Ignore the first half of the movie's bad plot - coming back from the dead, how many times have we seen that one on daytime television? The middle 30 minutes are okay and at some points even spectacular, but Pearl Harbor should not be about "Entertainment" with a CAPITAL "E" and that's what all the pyrotecnics are there for it seems, just to entertain. Disgusting.
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