MOVIE REVIEW

Pearl Harbor / 2001

Name: Pearl Harbor
Director: Michael Bay
Genre: Action, History, Romance, War
Released: 2001
Duration: 183 min
Rating: 6.9

It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.

6.9 / 10 (6,960 votes)

183 minutes

DIRECTOR Michael Bay

WRITERS Randall Wallace

CAST Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Alec Baldwin, Ewen Bremner, William Lee Scott, Greg Zola, Jennifer Garner, Jaime King, Catherine Kellner, Sara Rue, Michael Shannon

PRODUCTION Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

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Sinopsis

Pearl Harbor adalah sebuah War, Romance, History, Action yang dirilis pada tahun 2001. “It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.” Film ini disutradarai oleh Michael Bay dan dibintangi oleh Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight.

Pearl Harbor menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, Pearl Harbor menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, Pearl Harbor adalah War yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 28, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

John Chard 5/10

September 25, 2014

OK! Lets not beat around the bush, it's historically suspicious, badly written, badly cast and clearly an hour too long. A splendid "support cast" are wasted as Michael Bay and his production team think they can produce some sort of Titanic of the Skies like epic and fail in their objective. By the time of the brilliantly constructed assault by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, and "it is" exhilarating and edge of the seat heart pounding, you are left with the feeling that all the main characters in the piece are not really worth our emotional investment. It's not an...

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CinemaSerf 6/10

July 1, 2022

After about half an hour, I started to wonder if this film was going to take as long to get going as a pearl takes to form in an oyster! It's a close run thing, as it must be around eighty minutes in before the Japanese come to the rescue of the audience and introduce some action into this over-long and dreary romance. Certainly it is all handsomely presented with Ben Affleck ("Rafe") at his most swarthy as he gets it to together with "Evelyn" (Kate Beckinsale). Having put us through the usual "how to get the girl" shenanigans, though,...

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Wuchak 9/10

January 30, 2023

**_A fine drama/romance combined with great war action_** "Pearl Harbor" (2001) is a Titanic-ized version of the tragic events of Pearl Harbor—a fabricated drama/romance hooking the viewer into the deceitful attack of December 7, 1941. It's 85 minutes before the attack occurs so the drama/romance and build-up to the infamous day BETTER be good, and it is. It's believable too (except maybe for the premature sex scene, which inaccurately transfers modern morals to the early '40s). This first act successfully brings us back to the era of the early '40s and sets the stage for the attack. I didn't think...

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RalphRahal 6/10

February 18, 2025

Pearl Harbor is one of those movies that gets a lot of hate, but honestly, I don’t think it deserves all of it. People go in expecting a war film and get a romance drama instead, which seems to be where most of the criticism comes from. The plot focuses more on a love triangle than the historical attack itself, and while that might not be what everyone wanted, it was clearly the film’s intention. If you can accept that it's a romantic drama set against a war backdrop, rather than a war film with romance sprinkled in, then you...

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GenerationofSwine 1/10

March 1, 2026

I think the best review on this was "An American love triangle interrupted by a bombing" or something along those lines and that pretty much sums it up. The action is pretty cool, but... that's all you get.

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