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Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray] | ![Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-8LqmO-%2BL.jpg) | Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $20.00
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Seller: MovieMars
Sales Rank: 9513
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 183 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: DISBR53450
UPC: 786936724745
EAN: 0786936724745
ASIN: B000JVSUS4
Release Date: December 19, 2006
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Product Description
Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Blockbuster story of the WWII sneak attack features groundbreaking visual effects and extras including a Faith Hill music video, The Making of Pearl Harbor ," the History Channel documentary Unsung Heroes" and more! 2 DVDs. 2001/color/3 hrs/PG-13.
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To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay's epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliché (some affectionate, some stale) you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened.
br/> For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress--he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance--the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England--works, thanks to their charm. They're no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they're pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor--from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight's able impersonation of FDR--is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. --Mark Englehart
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