The sinking of the battleship Arizona is especially spectacular, but, as you sit there marveling at it, you can't help but feel ashamed of yourself. The editing is razor-sharp, the sound swirls around you, and Bay handles the difficult spatial relations of aerial combat without losing the audience. Shortly thereafter, to quote Bob Dylan, the fast bullets fly, and it's every bit as impressive as you expect it to be.
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His reaction when he determines that Beckinsale and Hartnett are a pair is also classic: He looks like a caveman slowly realizing how to work a yo-yo. Rafe's explanation to Evelyn of how he managed to survive his ordeal consists of a couple of sweeping details and Affleck saying, "I'll tell you about it later" - which he never does. This is the single most hysterical stretch of the film. Evelyn and Danny, of course, become an item, then Rafe "unexpectedly" returns from the dead. Rafe is then shot down and crashes into the ocean, at which point we're supposed to believe that Affleck is a goner 55 minutes into his own movie. It takes forever for Affleck to join a British fighter squadron in Europe, leaving Beckinsale and Hartnett back in Hawaii. Their single-minded shallowness is one of the picture's most embarrassing elements. But she and the other nurses (including model James King, who's sweet and genuine) are portrayed as man-hungry nincompoops. Beckinsale is a gorgeous woman, and a pretty good actress, so you like her. In the early going, when Rafe meets and falls in love with a beautiful nurse named Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale), you get the uneasy feeling that you're watching outtakes from Steven Spielberg's 1979 misfire, "1941." The couple's courtship is painted in the broadest possible comic strokes.
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Like everything else in the movie besides the battle scenes, they seem like panels from a comic strip. Bay conveys apparently bothersome bits of historical perspective via a few fake newsreels that run literally about six seconds each. Rafe and his childhood friend, Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett), have joined the Army Air Corps while the U.S. But getting there is a cliche-ridden, often laughable chore.īen Affleck, in slightly stronger form than usual, stars as the improbably named Rafe McCawley, a cocky Tennessee-bred fighter pilot who's just itchin' to get behind the stick in a combat situation.
A lot of people will rightfully be crowing about the technically astonishing battle scenes that take up over an hour of screen time.
Given Randall Wallace's ludicrously under-written screenplay - and Bruckheimer's vulgar, self-serving "let's honor the dead" marketing approach - it's obvious that the attack is the only reason anyone was interested. It's tempting to say that it wasn't the filmmakers' goal to get the audience rooting for the Japanese to make their deadly air strike, but that's too forgiving. Military Historian Larry Suid on how "Pearl Harbor" compares against history
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