Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    2001

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Ben AffleckRafe McCawley
    • Kate BeckinsaleEvelyn Johnson
    • Josh HartnettDanny Walker
    • Cuba Gooding Jr.Doris Miller
    • Jon VoightFranklin D. Roosevelt
    • Tom SizemoreEarl Sistern
    • Alec BaldwinJames Doolittle
    • Ewen BremnerRed Winkle
    • William Lee ScottBilly Thompson
    • Greg ZolaAnthony Fusco

    Recommendations

    • 60

      New Times (L.A.)

      It's war porn, a movie that revels in the carnage.
    • 50

      Portland Oregonian

      It's a Ritalin-deprived sensibility, but it keeps you skating over the dull spots, in which the film unfortunately is rich.
    • 50

      Austin Chronicle

      A crowd-pleasing blockbuster if ever there was one, features as its centerpiece a jaw-droppingly vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on the U.S.'s fabled (and extremely vulnerable, as it turned out) Pacific fleet.
    • 50

      Salon

      "Pearl Harbor" is exactly the kind of prestige project you'd expect from a director like Bay, hitting all its targets with plodding precision and never once achieving surprise.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Clearly, neither screenwriter Randall Wallace nor director Michael Bay ever met a cliche he didn't embrace.
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      For all its agonizing true-life trappings, has the staying power of a grand-scale video game. Manhattan's sushi bars are in no danger of going dark.
    • 40

      Chicago Reader

      If you decide to hit the concessions stand (where you're bound to have lots of company), I'd suggest going out for popcorn during either the first hour or the third, because the second features some pretty good big-screen effects involving planes, ships, and explosions.
    • 40

      Village Voice

      The chaos is convincing, but, less ruthless than Steven Spielberg, Bay eschews D-day panic and mutilation.

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