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Pearl Harbor, 15 minute battle, 3 hour movie December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was and will always be a date that will live in infamy. But May 25, 2001, the opening of the movie “Pearl Harbor” is a date that was or at least should be soon forgotten. The noisy, expensive, and entirely to drawn out movie was hyped up for months in advance, only to leave viewers with a confused view of the battle and numb backside. To put it bluntly, the movie was a definite letdown. The movie started out looking like it was going to be very good. The plot of the attack is a great story, and the writer started out the movie with two main characters, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. Two great actors. They play two childhood friends who grow up to be flashy pilots in the army, and later fall in love with the same nurse Evelyn Johnson, played by Kate Beckinsale. Now this would have been plenty enough characters to develop a good story line. But when the writers added on three separate love stories, and countless other characters to give stories to, they ended up only giving a glimpse of each character’s story.
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