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"Like
a Giant Cereal Commercial"
Richard Johnson
New York Post
"The
Historical Intrigue – Did FDR Know About the Attack Beforehand? –
is Pointedly Ignored"
by Donald Munro
Fresno Bee
"Superficial,
Melodramatic and Too Long – and That's the Good News"
by Liz Braun
Toronto Sun
"A
Film That Will Live in Infamy"
by Todd McCarthy
Daily Variety
"We
Don't Like It"
Reuters/Variety Reviews
'Pearl
Harbor' Sinks (Nice Lighting, Though)
by Stephen Humphries
Christian Science Monitor
"The
Biggest, and Most Expensive, Waste of Time in Several Years"
by Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine
"Never
Have So Many Spent So Much On So Little"
by A.O.
Scott
New York Times
"An
Unremarkable Action Movie ... Stunning Banality ... Directed Without Grace,
Wision or Originality"
by Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
"Lumbering
Brontosaurus of a Movie"
by Tom Block
CultureVulture.net
Pearl
Vets Give 'Pearl' Thumbs Down
by Neil Graves
New York Post
Script
Sinks Flag-Waving 'Pearl Harbor'
by Gary Arnold
Washington Times
"Bloated,
Waterlogged Catastrophe That Looks and Feels Phony in Every Detail"
by Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
"Trite
Encapsulation is Tirelessly Hollywood"
E-Online
"Too
Many Phony, Padded Scenes ... Dusty Dialogue ... Weak Use of Newsreel
Material, Dull Attempts at Montage"
by David Elliott
San Diego Union Tribune
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"A
Dumb, Soulless Behemoth"
by David Germain
Associated Press
"Blockheaded,
Hollow-hearted Industrial Enterprise ... Lame Comedy, Dubious History,
Fumbling Drama and a Love Story So Inept as to Make a Pacifist Long
for War"
by Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
"The
Kind of Crap That Deserves to be Slapped Silly ... The Desperate Pretentiousness
is Enough to Make You Sick"
by Mary
Ann Johanson
The Flick Filosopher
"Incoherent,
Jingoistic, Timid, Naive and Ultimately Inconsequential"
Ray Pride
NewCityChicago.com
"Big
Budget Roman Candle Bombs"
by Steve Persall
St. Petersburg Times
"Simplistic,
Cliché-Ridden ... Bombs Have the Best Part"
by Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"A
Dud ... Like Every Overblown TV Miniseries You've Hated Yourself for
Having Been Suckered Into"
by Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
"Soggy,
Corny, Predictable and Interminable"
by Lou Lumenick
New York Post
"A
Disorienting Collage of Blurred Impressions ... Close-ups That Resemble
Invasive Nasal Surgery"
by Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Mightily
Bad ... Syrupy, Nonsensical, Curiously Unmoving ... A Puppet Show With
Smoke Bombs"
by Henry Sheehan
Orange County Register
"An
Unaffecting, Cliche-riddled Bore"
by Robert Butler
Kansas City Star
Pearl
Harbor Sinks Fast
by Darren Waters
BBC News
"A
Dud of an Emotional Bomb ... As Thin as Weak Gruel"
by Donald Munro
Fresno Bee
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