Novel
Páginas: 3 (650 palabras)
Publicado: 18 de octubre de 2012
Running time: 183 minutes
Starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Ewen Bremner, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alec Baldwin, Tom Sizemore
Rating 7 out of 10
So much has been written about thismovie before it even opens that it arrives on our shores with a great deal of advance publicity. Most of this has been negative. Is it the most expensive flop ever made? Well, reports of the film'sdemise have been greatly exaggerated. This is definitely no Heaven's Gate, the film that sank United Artists and ushered in the era of the multi-million budgeted feature. Neither is it another Titanic (asmuch as it would like to be). Yes it is a flawed film, yes it is overlong and yes it is at times unspeakably corny, but overall it is a solid piece of Hollywood cheese which is highly entertainingfor much of its three-hour running time.
The film opens with a brief prologue eighteen years before the fateful attack that changed the course of WWII. In Nowheresville USA, two young best friends,Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) fantasise about becoming fighter pilots. When war eventually breaks out in Europe and Asia the two realise their dream and sign up for the air force. Theonly thing that distracts them from their love of flying is their love of ladies and along with the rest of the platoon they hunt high and low for the freshest new blood on the army's nursing staff.Soon enough Rafe falls in love with one of said nurses, Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale). But when he is sent on a mission to help the Limeys in battletorn Britain the two face the realisation that they maynever meet again. When Evelyn is transferred to Pearl Harbor she soon receives news, from Danny, that Rafe has been shot down over the Channel and is presumed killed in action.
It's a fairlyperfunctory set-up. Although they are desperately trying to be Jack and Rose from Titanic, Affleck and Beckinsale fail to deliver a totally convincing screen relationship. This could be the fault of the...
Starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Ewen Bremner, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alec Baldwin, Tom Sizemore
Rating 7 out of 10
So much has been written about thismovie before it even opens that it arrives on our shores with a great deal of advance publicity. Most of this has been negative. Is it the most expensive flop ever made? Well, reports of the film'sdemise have been greatly exaggerated. This is definitely no Heaven's Gate, the film that sank United Artists and ushered in the era of the multi-million budgeted feature. Neither is it another Titanic (asmuch as it would like to be). Yes it is a flawed film, yes it is overlong and yes it is at times unspeakably corny, but overall it is a solid piece of Hollywood cheese which is highly entertainingfor much of its three-hour running time.
The film opens with a brief prologue eighteen years before the fateful attack that changed the course of WWII. In Nowheresville USA, two young best friends,Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) fantasise about becoming fighter pilots. When war eventually breaks out in Europe and Asia the two realise their dream and sign up for the air force. Theonly thing that distracts them from their love of flying is their love of ladies and along with the rest of the platoon they hunt high and low for the freshest new blood on the army's nursing staff.Soon enough Rafe falls in love with one of said nurses, Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale). But when he is sent on a mission to help the Limeys in battletorn Britain the two face the realisation that they maynever meet again. When Evelyn is transferred to Pearl Harbor she soon receives news, from Danny, that Rafe has been shot down over the Channel and is presumed killed in action.
It's a fairlyperfunctory set-up. Although they are desperately trying to be Jack and Rose from Titanic, Affleck and Beckinsale fail to deliver a totally convincing screen relationship. This could be the fault of the...
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