Pearl Harbour (2001) 6/10

Starring : Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Ewan Bremner
Director : Michael Bay
Running Time : 176 mins

Two childhood friends join the forces together to fight for their country, but when Rafe McCawley (Affleck) goes missing in action and is presumed dead, his best friend Danny Walker (Hartnett) starts to feel attracted to McCawley girlfriend, Evelyn Johnson (Beckinsale). Amidst the resultant chaos of the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbour, McCawley turns up alive and the two friends find themselves faced with having to decide who gets to keep the girl.

The characters in this movie are so unsympathetic and unrealistic that it does kind of distract the viewers attention away from the main focus of the movie. Beckinsale's character, going from pillar to post between two guys who don't seem to mind who gets her, is ridiculously written, and the ending that sees her united with one of the men while the other dies is actually too speedily resolved for my liking. Still, the actual attack scenes are pretty good.

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