Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor
By: Andrew Geise

For my movie review I decided to watch the movie Pearl Harbor. This movie combines fictional characters with historical characters to make a war movie with a love story for a twist. In the scenes that involved war reenactments, the movie was depicted accurately. The movie producers took great care in making sure that all the battle scenes were as true to life as possible, to try to make the audience feel as if they were right within the depths of the pacific fleet and under attack by Japan.
There were several characters that appeared within the movie, some real and some fictional. Characters Rafe McCauley (played by Ben Afflek), Danny Walker (played by Josh Harnett), and Evelyn Johnson (played by Kate Beckinsale) were all fictional characters. Even though none of them ever existed, they all help the movie gain a plot that kept moviegoers watching for the two and a half hour long film. They played a very important ...