Mauled by critics, flailed by online forums and fan-boys alike, and generally perceived as some kind of Titanic-clone, Pearl Harbor remains perhaps the least appreciated, or understood, of Bay’s films thus far. Pearl Harbor, simply put, sucked big time. Yeah, I know this is starting to sound like a love letter to the man, but I wanted to give you my opinion of him so that the rest of this review can be taken in the context I mean it, framed by the admiration I have for his style and technique.īen finds out where the probe goes. Generally, in most website forums you’ll come across where his work is dissected, you’ll find the now common phrase “Damn You Michael Bay”, which is a deplorably pathetic epithet to fling at a man whose love for the craft is so ingrained, so obvious, that every moment in his films are filled with a sense of immediacy, a sense of cinematic steadiness, that you can’t help but be dragged along for the ride.
Bay’s films have often had a polarising effect on the cinema-going public. Bay is the master of hyperbolic, kinetic filmmaking, the kind of stuff that makes cinema so cinematic, he can turn even the most boring action moment into a vibrant, cataclysmic screen event. Armageddon, The Rock, The Island, more recently Transformers all films that have rocked in a big, big way. I have no qualms telling people this, and I think, given the right script and story, he’s a director with a stunning eye for what looks great up on a huge screen in thunderous surround sound. I’ve long asserted on this site that Michael Bay is one of my favourite directors. Often incomprehensible, occasionally superior filmmaking, Pearl Harbor is one of the biggest “if only they’d done it better” films you’re likely to see. With the action scenes, it’s a dramatic misfire wanting badly to be an action film. Review : If it wasn’t for the action sequences, this film would be a romantic comedy turd. Oh, and apparently the Japanese want to bomb America. They beat each other up, tell each other they love each other, and look around in lots of slo-motion. Synopsis: Two friends fight for the affections of the same woman. Cast : Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Ewan Bremner, Tom Sizemore, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, Mako, Alec Baldwin, William Lee Scott, Jamie King, Jennifer Garner, Michael Shannon, Matt Davis, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Everett, Tomas Arana, Kim Coates, William Fichtner, Leland Orser, David Kaufman.
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