Pearl Harbor (Blu-ray)

Pearl Harbor has always been a film of two halves. The stunning centrepiece attack and the extremely soggy and badly written romance plot that anchors the rest of the film for the two hours either side of the main attack. Obviously at the time attempting to ride the coat-tails of Titanic a couple of years earlier the film has the same idea of marrying a historic disaster to a love story. But it fails to marry them as well as Titanic did and has even worse dialogue! Therefore all that's really left (and where the film earns it's stars) is in the lavish and sumptuous recreation of the period and the cutting edge visual effects employed to make it all seem horribly real as battleships are blown up and capsize, and men are cut down by aerial fire from above. It's hugely choreographed by Bay who is in his element with that part of the film and it looks superb on Blu-ray. But the rest of the film is much less impressive.

It is a fine effort to make this tragic event to come to life in this life time. But it was ruined by the stupid love story between two friends and a women. The only reason this is given 3 stars is because the bombing of pearl harbour is stunning with effects and cinematic perfection. Buy with caution as this isjnt ia typical war film.

For anyone that liked the original you will love this in stunning blu-ray. Brilliant visuals throughout

I don't get people who say the love parts shouldn't be there, I thought it was a perfect balance considering the action that comes later, it was really nice story about 2 men who love the same woman and had to go to war, almost like a suicide mission, so to me it made the film complete and have a proper story than just all action and no point, but of course there is some people who want all action and no real story, but this film has plenty of both so why complain?
I have to pouint out I actually hate war films, but I thought the overall film was amazeing includeing the action scenes, and titanic?
This was a lot better than titanic, I thouroughly enjoyed this, you can't get better than this, it's absoutlely brilliant, one of the best films I ever saw.

this film is ace great on blue ray 5 star buy you must have

I couldnt select 1 star as the action sequence at the end was brilliant! The problem with this film is everything else. It would have been a lot better if they just cut the first 3/4 and left the ending.

Any sub titles for this movie?
If yes:
- Norwegian?
- English, not English For The Hearing Impaired?

L bought this film on 'blu-ray' some while back now and have only just taken time out to watch it.
I'd purchased the 'dvd' and watched it when released, but when i saw this on 'blu-ray' i wondered just how good the attack on pearl harbour might be on 'hi-def' i wasn't dissapointed, it was pretty impressive, overall it was like watching the film again for the first time.
Currently 'play' have a '3' for '2' offer on, maybe if your struggling to find a third title this might just be the answer ?

Hey look, here is another film made by americans where history is rewritten.

I have seen this movie a couple of times on DVD and whilst it is based on fact, there is an awful lot of poetic license taken with this film. That aside, this film is actually very good and has a great mix of heart-warming love, friendship and unity coupled with shed-loads of dramatic action, explosions and blazing guns.

Quality wise, the BD version of this film is jaw-dropping. Colour and detail are unrivalled and the soundtrack is simply awsome. DD is fantastic, DTS incredible.

You might not be a fan of this sort of movie but if you want to see what your HD system and surround sound set-up can do, get this movie on BD.