Pearl Harbor
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: May 25, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
20
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The film's immense cast and crew, headed by director Michael Bay, writer Randall Wallace and stars Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale, blend artistry and technology to create a blockbuster entertainment that has passion, valor and tremendous action. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It expertly capitalizes on the emotional associations Americans have with Pearl Harbor and renders the battle scenes with an excellence that goes beyond proficiency and into the realm of art. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The cast is engaging, the overall visual effects are tremendous and I found myself fairly swept away for most of the fast-moving, three-hour running time. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The film never quite hits a sure-footed stride. The fictional love story stays fictional. But ''Pearl Harbor'' delivers the main event.
70
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Until a disappointing tailspin in the last hour, Pearl Harbor is the best piece of popular entertainment to come along in years. Read full review
70
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Ninety minutes into this massive movie the attack commences, and the spectacular images come hurtling like fireballs. This is, let's be honest, what we're here for, and what most Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movies serve up best: the poetry of destruction. Read full review
70
Film.comSean Means
Parts of this three-hour World War II epic are brilliant -- especially the 40-minute sequence in which the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is stunningly re-created. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The picture is nearly painstaking in its traditionalism, a tale of love, war, and valor in which nostalgia for ''simpler times'' gets mashed together, almost fetishistically, with nostalgia for old movies and for the spirit of knightly self sacrifice during World War II. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A movie meant to explode off the screen -- and it's at its best when those explosions are going full blast. Read full review
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