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Pearl Harbor

  • 2001
  • Tous publics
  • 3h 3m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
362K
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POPULARITY
1,343
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A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

  • Director
    • Michael Bay
  • Writer
    • Randall Wallace
  • Stars
    • Ben Affleck
    • Kate Beckinsale
    • Josh Hartnett
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    362K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,343
    204
    • Director
      • Michael Bay
    • Writer
      • Randall Wallace
    • Stars
      • Ben Affleck
      • Kate Beckinsale
      • Josh Hartnett
    • 2.1KUser reviews
    • 97Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 14 wins & 51 nominations total

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    Ben Affleck
    Ben Affleck
    • Rafe McCawley
    Kate Beckinsale
    Kate Beckinsale
    • Evelyn Johnson
    Josh Hartnett
    Josh Hartnett
    • Danny Walker
    William Lee Scott
    William Lee Scott
    • Billy
    Greg Zola
    • Anthony Fusco
    Ewen Bremner
    Ewen Bremner
    • Red
    Alec Baldwin
    Alec Baldwin
    • Doolittle
    Jaime King
    Jaime King
    • Betty
    • (as James King)
    Catherine Kellner
    Catherine Kellner
    • Barbara
    Jennifer Garner
    Jennifer Garner
    • Sandra
    Jon Voight
    Jon Voight
    • President Roosevelt
    Cuba Gooding Jr.
    Cuba Gooding Jr.
    • Doris 'Dorie' Miller
    Michael Shannon
    Michael Shannon
    • Gooz
    Matthew Davis
    Matthew Davis
    • Joe
    • (as Matt Davis)
    Mako
    Mako
    • Admiral Yamamoto
    John Fujioka
    John Fujioka
    • Nishikura
    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
    • Genda
    Colm Feore
    Colm Feore
    • Admiral Kimmel
    • Director
      • Michael Bay
    • Writer
      • Randall Wallace
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    9TyMaTix

    Why is it so badly rated?

    I don't understand, why people are rating this film so bad. In my opinion its a good mixture between action and love story. Maybe a little bit more action. And in my oppinion a film hasn't to be 100% accurate, when it's enjoyable to watch it. If you want accurate things, then you have to watch some documentarys and not action films.
    8Nazi_Fighter_David

    "If I had one more night to live, I'd want to spend it with you."

    The film opens in 1923 and shows farm boys Rafe and Danny as close friends in Tennessee, who share a passion for flying... They join the United States Army Air Corps in 1941 and both show an ability at being daring pilots while training under the command of Jimmy Doolittle, in Long Island...

    Their life is changed when they encounter a beautiful dedicated nurse called Evelyn Johnson...

    Rafe falls for Evelyn and volunteers for service in the Battle of Britain… He continues his love affair by letters with Evelyn who ends up with Danny in Hawaii - Pearl Harbor, where the US Pacific fleet is gathered at rest...

    News comes back that he was shot down over the English Channel, and assumed dead… Keenly distressed, Evelyn eventually finds relief in the arms of Danny... They go too far, too soon, leading to exactly what you would expect...

    By the time that Rafe reappears, Evelyn is in love with Danny…

    Kate Beckinsale brings warmth and intelligent sweetness to her character... She is quietly at a loss, holding back her tears, when she finds out she must choose between the two charming fighters she loves...

    The film honors those who underwent Pearl Harbor…The great shots plunge viewers into mass destruction, chaos and incompetence... We see hundreds of Japanese planes approaching towards their unsuspecting targets… Sailors sauntering along the decks of their moored vessels when the torpedo planes, armed with special shallow-running devices, headed for the battleships, their prime targets…

    Bay's cameras move sometimes fast, and sometimes in slow motion to show the savage blow… Scenes, out of focus, evoke the sense of disorientation and fear, also of bravery in the midst of confusion in the island's base hospital...

    'Pearl Harbor' is a fight between love and glory against a backdrop of America's entry into World War II... The film has some moments of excitement and grandeur…

    Schwartzman gets some extremely nice-looking scenes of the Hawaiian twilight... His shots of Kate—sitting atop a rock, reading Rafe's love-letters, totally unaware to the striking Hawaiian surf that threatens to pull her out to sea—are incredibly beautiful
    hissingsid

    C'est magnifique, c'est ne le guerre pas!

    (Please excuse my French, it's probably wrong) Roll up, roll up! See the cinematic spectacle of 2001! See the horrible deaths of 2500 or so people commemorated by a film about two guys who fly fast planes really fast. See them go ZOOOOOOOOM, see them go WHIIIIZZZZ! See them reprise the 'flypast and debriefing' scenes from Top Gun. Watch the beautiful love story unfold. See the true love two people have for one another tested and broken when Kate Beckinsale comes between them. See a fine young actor reduced to playing Token Black Guy. Watch as he fights to prove he's more than a Token Black Guy, even though he's given so little to do that he ends up as nothing more than a Token Black Guy (even though, unlike the two guys in the planes, Token Black Guy actually existed). Watch the awful bombing of a military target. Watch the heroic bombing of a city. Watch Jon Voigt recreate Peter Sellars' unforgettable character Dr. Strangelove. Watch the whole reality of war, and the lives and deaths therein trivialised to make a Big Dumb Action Movie that thinks it's some kind of ghastly tribute to the American dead of December the 7th. Or better still... don't! On the other hand, if you want an unrealistic film with ponderously paced romance, fighter planes zooming all over the place and nice explosions, check this out. It's a lot of fun. Just don't take it seriously - you'll only encourage them!
    8joshhylto

    I'm confused with all the hate of the film.

    I've never written a review before but after seen how many people are saying this film I thought I better. I actually think the film was great the main premise of the film which I feel most people have completely missed is a bond between two guys that is as strong as a brotherhood hood. The alpha one who has the confidence to take over the world and the quiter one both who would die for each other in an instance. And maybe it was just me but I really did feel the emotions that they feel throughout the film. It seems like a lot of people hate the film so maybe I'm missing something but i think its a great film. The film is not totally accurate but films don't need to be and I film is long which is the reason I suspect it gets so much hate.
    7Screen_Blitz

    Michael Bay's World War II is entertaining, yet deeply flawed

    For the past two decades now, Michael Bay has been known littering his films with countless explosions, and with this heavy special effects, garners wide success at the box office. Here, Michael Bay steps into the war genre with this intense, dramatic retelling of the fateful event that pulled America into World War II in the 1941. Set near the dawn of World War II, Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett play Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, two Airforce soldiers who have been best friends since childhood. As they grow up, they are caught in a love triangle when they both fall in love with beautiful nurse named Evelyn (played by Kate Beckinsale). Things get pretty complicated when Danny and Evelyn are transferred to Pearl Harbor where Rafe returns from fighting overseas in Great Britain to find the two are in a relationship. Next morning, December 7, Danny and Rafe wake up to find hundreds of Japanese fighter pilots dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. The two friends arm themselves with the F-51s in attempt to fight off against the Japanese fleet. With the U.S naval base devastated and thousands of innocent lives lost, the U.S declares war against war. From there on, Dafe and Rafe and their army lead by Lieutenant Colonol James Dolittle (played by Alec Baldwin) prepare for a fight against Japan to overcome their country's catastrophic defeat. This film also features Cuba Gooding Jr. who plays Captain Dorie Miller, the first African- American in history to be awarded the U.S Navy Cross.

    The bombing of Pearl Harbor was one of the most shocking moments in the history of America, and it makes interesting subject matter to be told on on screen. Although this movie does manage to paint the horrors that took place during that fateful day, this film does suffer from some flaws that director Michael Bay is often known. Now with a war movie being directed by Bay, audience should go into this movie expecting abundance of explosions and this film plenty of these during the 40-minute action sequences that takes place during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The entire scene is very well done and the special effects are great. The scene really captures the grim details of what the civilians of Pearl Harbor suffered through as we watch countless of people killed from gunfire and drowning, as well as others who suffer some gruesome injuries. This entire scene is quite difficult to watch and it really pulls at your heart strings. Now here is where the film falters. Along with the whole Japanese attack and its aftermath, audiences are treated with a romantic subplot involving Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck, and Kate Beckinsale that takes up a good portion of the film. What we get from this is poor acting and cheesy dialogue between Affleck and Beckinsale, including a line "I love you so much it hurts", a line that is highly laughable and far too corny, especially when dealing with a war flick. The whole love story is not terrible, but definitely takes more than what is needed of the film. With the whole story, the film ends up running 183 minutes.

    Pearl Harbor is certainly not one of the best war movies in Hollywood and definitely not the best of what Michael Bay has to offer. I feel that this could have done better if it was handled someone like Steven Spielberg who has been masterful with the World War II genre (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List). Overall, this is film is not terrible. Despite some of its flaws, it still works and is entertaining to watch.

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    • Trivia
      When shooting the scene where Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) manage to get off the ground during the attack, and are chased by three Japanese Zeroes, one of the real planes clipped a palm tree and crashed. The pilot was dazed, and suffered only a broken finger.
    • Goofs
      (at around 1h 20 mins) The Japanese are shown flipping a calendar from the 6th to the 7th of December on the morning of the attack. This is done for American audiences who are familiar with the date of the attack being 7 December 1941. Clocks aboard the Japanese ships were kept on Tokyo time, so for them the attack actually took place the morning of 8 December. The Japanese version of the film shows the calendar flipping from the 7th to the 8th.
    • Quotes

      Admiral Yamamoto: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.

    • Crazy credits
      Unusually, Pearl Harbor started without showing the opening Touchstone and Bruckheimer logos; they only showed up after the end credits.
    • Alternate versions
      The VHS & HDTV versions of the movie are presented in 16x9 pan and scan with the battle scenes presented in 1.85:1.
    • Connections
      Edited into Transformers (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      There You'll Be
      Written by Diane Warren

      Produced by Trevor Horn and Byron Gallimore

      Performed by Faith Hill

      Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records

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    • Release date
      • June 6, 2001 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
      • French
      • Latin
      • Chinese
    • Also known as
      • Tennessee
    • Filming locations
      • Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA
    • Production companies
      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $140,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $198,542,554
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $59,078,912
      • May 27, 2001
    • Gross worldwide
      • $449,220,945
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      3 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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