WWII history according to Michael Bay (Armageddon, The Rock), a three-hour lesson. To some extent the seriousness of the subject -- as contrasted to the director's previous subjects of the end of the world and the mere annihilation of San Francisco -- seems to have inspired Bay to sit up and fly right. Or at least try to. Much of that seriousness comes down to a flag-waving and saber-rattling piety that would have been easier to excuse in the years 1942-45. And much of that seriousness, too, never scales higher than Madison Avenue kitsch: every image is sleek and polished as a Lexus, creamy and sensuous as Bain de Soleil, toasted and bronzed as Kellogg's Corn Flakes. The selling never lets up. The arm-twisting never lets go. In all fairness to Bay, however, he's probably being serious in the best and only ways he knows how. Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Jon Voight. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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