If directors, producers, and screenwriters could be sent to jail for making a bad film then Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Randall Wallace should all be serving life sentences for "Peal Harbor." This is one of the most disgraceful WWII films ever made. The sheer stupidity of the fictional love story is bad enough, but even a cursory glance at the actual historical events shows how deeply this film has been dumbed-down for (...) audiences addicted to special effects. The CGI effects in "Pearl Harbor" are intensely obvious, looking like nothing more than animated paintings. Indeed, most of the combat scenes appear like a softcore rip-off of the battle scenes in "Saving Private Ryan". Well, nobody ever said Michael Bay's direction ever suffered from a case of originality.