Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a movie that focuses on none other than the attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie starts off with Rafe and Danny, two best friends, as kids. They always wanted to fly airplanes. Rafe also looked out for Danny a lot. When they got older they both decided they wanted to go be pilots in the military. Rafe shouldn't have been passed because of his eyesight, but a nurse who he had the hots for let him pass anyway. Later, Rafe told Evelyn, the nurse, that he volunteered to go fly overseas. When Rafe is reported dead, Danny finds out that Rafe was once again protecting him because he told him he was assigned, when in reality he didn't want Danny to go with because he didn't want him to get killed. Danny and Evelyn start seeing each other, and magically Rafe appears, having not died at all but just wrecked in the ocean. There was some tension between the three of them after that, but Danny and Rafe quickly realized how close they are when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened.
With the attack on Pearl Harbor, they got in planes and shot down Japanese airplanes that were flying overhead. The Japanese had over 350 planes overhead that day. When the President declared war on Japan a mission was set up for men to fly to Japan and attack them. Because they were running out of fuel, they had to make a crash landing (literally) only to be attacked by air and land. Rafe made it out alive, but Danny was not so lucky. Danny ended up dying in Rafe's arms next to the plane that was in flames. In the end, Danny was brought home in a wooded casket, the thousands of people who died on Pearl Harbor (those that could be found, anyway) had a big funeral, and Rafe and Evelyn ended up getting married.
I enjoyed watching this movie, and even though it was 3 hours long on 2 VHS tapes, I would recommend it. Ben Affleck, along with all the other actors and actresses in the movie, did an amazing job. I thought some of the parts in the movie were unnecessary or kind of boring, but overall there were many points of suspense that made you not even want to blink. The actual attack on Pearl Harbor was one of those points. It was very intense and full of guns and flames. If they wanted to make the movie more realistic, they probably should have casted a few different actors for some roles. I didn't think President Roosevelt looked very much like the actual President in the movie. That was a downer for me. Overall, I really liked the movie and I could see myself watching it again.
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