Not only do I consider Pearl Harbor a bad movie.  I consider it Michael Bay’s worst work to date.  And the much talked about attack-on-Pearl-Harbor sequence did nothing to change my feelings.  Sadly.  You know, I don’t want to dislike a movie like Pearl Harbor.  Even with Armageddon, which was a hyperactive mess on so many levels, I could appreciate the development of characters and the finesse with which Bay blew stuff up real good.  The attack on Pearl Harbor is enormous.  But anyone who looks past the CG itself can see that there is no sense of geography, time or logic to make the sequence truly compelling.  We spend about 90 minutes with these characters before we get to the attack.  Why is it that we have no sense of where the barracks or the secondary airfield or the nurses' quarters are in relation to the ships?  Or why some people know that they are being attacked while others, theoretically just miles away, don’t hear the bombs for tens of minutes?  Or why so much information suggesting that something bad was about to happen was completely disregarded by senior officer after senior officer?