Pearl Harbor (Two-Disc 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)

Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 1946 reviews
Sales Rank: 1025

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 183 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9

MPN: DISD23889D
ISBN: 0788831216
UPC: 786936164282
EAN: 9780788831218
ASIN: B00003CXTG

Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: December 4, 2001
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Pearl Harbor (Two-Disc 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)

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4 out of 5 stars Pearl Harbor    January 7, 2009
Science Lady (PA, USA)
A love story and a test of friendship during this country's first homeland attack at Pearl Harbor.


5 out of 5 stars Very good movie, a favorite, mixture of friendship, love and war.    December 31, 2008
Andreas E. Nielsen (MN, USA / Denmark)
This movie has always been one of my favorites.
It tells and shows a lot of things and in some moments it can even make me drop a tear. It is a very good movie but also very sad.
It is definitely a must see , and i can nothing else but recommend it!
- Andreas


1 out of 5 stars Icckk    December 24, 2008
L. Peyronnin (Flagstaff, AZ United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This movie is absurdly bad. A white elephant. From the start, when you see Alec Baldwin, as an Army Air Corps officer, ordering a couple of US Army pilots to Britain to fight Germans in British RAF fighters, you know this flick is BS. America was a neutral in 1940, no US armed service personel were ever sent that year or the next to fight in the British air force. There was an American squadron that saw service flying British fighters in the Battle of Britain, but they were all volunteer mercenaries, who showed up in the UK dressed in civies. The only thing the US gov't would have done was to refrain from cancelling their visas, and let them go over. The two aforementioned pilots whom Baldwin sends, Afleck and that other guy, then proceed through the movie, through every major aviation event of the war, like they're Batman and Robin; reaching their climax as participants in the Dolittle Raid (which, it turns out, is Baldwin's role, which heightens the bogus nature of this "historical" production) They romance parts are a real tedious chore to have to put up with, the HOT stuff that From Here to Eternity provided and still provides this is not. There is not a Burt Lancaster or Donna Reed or Sinatra to be found among this pathetic High School drama class calibre cast. The Maudlin atmosphere is so strong that one is forced to notice further slop handling of details on the part of the producers. Like when they have an Army officer wearing a Khaki barracks cap with his Olive shirt. This was never done, and in all the old war flicks, that were made decades ago by guys who actually lived thru the war, you never see an army guy wearing a Khaki cap with an olive shirt, shear sloppiness. The director, back when this was released, bragged about the time and resources spent on producing the special effects "this movie is all about special effects" I remember him saying. Yeah, and apparently not about accuratly recounting history. Even then, the much ballywhod special effects are a dissapointment. You want to see a still competant film account of Pearl Harbor? Check out Tora!Tora!Tora! It still stands and delivers as a representatiion of these events. Want the weeks leading up to Pearl Harbor presented as sultry times for romance? Then go for the eforementioned From Here to Eternity. Stay away from this turkey. By the way, this system will not let me publish this review without punching in at least one star for it, it does not even deserve that.


1 out of 5 stars Horrible movie    December 23, 2008
Mark Wilsonwood (Grapevine, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

While I have little regard for Roger Ebert's opinion on movies or anything else, he did pretty much nail this movie by dismissing it as the story of how the Japanese Navy interrupted a love triangle. This movie is an incredible trivialization of such an important historical event.
It is also a fictional version. Doris Miller's actions were heroic, but he did not shoot down any Japanese planes. The pilots on whom the characters played by Ben "Aflac" and the other actor whose name escapes me were based did not down three Japanese planes by playing chicken with them. The attacking Japanese planes did not zip in and out and around ships and buildings like Star Wars TIE fighters.
But why am I even bothering to go into this much detail? The movie is horrible. Leave it at that.



5 out of 5 stars Pearl Harbor    December 20, 2008
D. Lamb (Illinois)
Even though there is alot of Hollywood in this movie there is alot of truth to it. I learned alot by watching it - history repeats itself in a way.