Every Michael Bay Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Released in 2001, Pearl Harbour is an incoherent mess from start to finish. With its excessive runtime (somewhere Bay falls down an awful lot) and some staggeringly poor, career-crippling performances from Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Garner and Josh Hartnett, it remains one of cinema's most ham-fisted attempts at a war-time drama.

The romance between Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale was full to exploding with bad dialogue and forced interactions, as if the actors were being held by gunpoint during filming, and the lack of charm with the usually decent talent involved made the whole spectacle plod and bump along right up until its predictable ending.

The saving grace - because every Bay film has one, somewhere - is the extended action sequence detailing the Pearl Harbour attacks. The sequence is mostly well-filmed and the effects are impressive.

Unfortunately, the rest of the film around it, promising to be a war-time Titanic, quickly sinks.