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�PEARL HARBOUR� is bigger than The Beatles and Jesus combined. Director Michael Bay showed his flair for filming OTT action set-pieces with �Bad Boys,� but this near 3-hour long epic is in a league of its own. Slated by subs of critics for the way the Americans in the movie blame the Japanese for everything, it is a one-sided story to the extreme, but what else were we to expect when the movie is an American one?!? However historically-flawed it is we�ll never really know, so we�ve got to find perverse comfort in the savagery of the spectacular Pearl Harbour attack (in which over 3,000 young Americans died�), because it makes death-by-war look and sound as painful as it must be. Not that movies like this ever seem to discourage hordes of red-blooded men from signing-up, knowing full well they too could be signing their lives away like the legions that have fallen before.
In similar overblown waters to �Titanic,� there�s a love story at-large playing in the shadow of the World War 2 atrocities of 1941, as war heroes Ben Affleck�s and Josh Hartnett�s long-standing best-buddy friendship crucially pivots around an obsession over the same woman, the strong-willed Kate Beckinsale. Jon Voight (real-life father of Angelina Jolie) slides into the wheelchair-bound role of President Roosevelt, while Alec Baldwin commands the top-secret counter-attack on Tokyo with verve.
No wonder this made a superstar of Ben Affleck. And by the scale and attention-to-detail of everything therein this movie, it�s no wonder you can watch it again and again and again, thanking pot-luck that�s it�s them and not you, it�s them and not you, it�s them and not you.
For fuck�s sake - don�t attack Iraq!!!
(STEVE RUDD)
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