雷夫（本•阿弗莱特）和丹尼（乔什•哈奈特）是一对自小玩在一起的好兄弟，两人对飞行都有很大兴趣，曾一起学习过驾驶飞机，二战初期，两人又一起加入了美国空军部队。受训期间，雷夫与军中医院里的女护士伊弗琳（凯特•贝金赛尔）坠入爱河。 　　为协助欧洲各国抵抗纳粹德国的侵略，美军决定派出精英部队前往欧洲大陆，雷夫自告奋勇前往参战，并将伊弗琳托付给丹尼照顾，不久，噩耗传来，雷夫的飞机在空战中不幸被德军击落，生还可能几乎为零。伊弗琳与丹尼在相互勉励的伤痛中，萌生爱情。令他们没想到的是，雷夫并没死去，当三人重聚首时，尴尬顿生。日军偷袭珍珠港一事帮他们解了围，雷夫与丹尼决定不做情敌做战友。 　　This one isn't too hard to figure. Big-budget action film producer Jerry Bruckheimer, looking at the receipts for Titanic, must have had his staff search the history books for another big disaster that could be turned into a similar romance-with-special-effects, and they came up with the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Perfect: That allowed for war footage akin to Saving Private Ryan. The hiring of director Michael Bay must have seemed obvious, at least to Bruckheimer, who had him handle Armageddon, which also featured Ben Affleck, here moving up to above-the-title star status. And finally, there's the soundtrack album, which had to feature a big end-title ballad in which a woman sang to her dead lover. Who else to write it but heartbreak ballad queen Diane Warren, and who else to sing it but diva-of-the-moment Faith Hill? Mix the elements, open it on Memorial Day weekend, and wait for the receipts to pour in. Not surprisingly, however, Pearl Harbor is no Titanic, Hill is no Celine Dion, and "There You'll Be" is no "My Heart Will Go On," though all of them do reasonable enough imitations to get by. Like the Titanic soundtrack album, this one has just the one pop song, followed by excerpts from Hans Zimmer's score. Zimmer is no James Horner, either, but his music is relentlessly slow and wistful, suggesting a film in which the action is a long time coming. Four straight tracks of dirge-like orchestral music topped by the wordless vocals of Julia Migenes go by before "Attack" signals that the fight has begun, and even that track falls off into a becalmed passage before long. Just before the end, "War" works up some martial pacing, but only to give the score an appropriately majestic sendoff. Like the film, the music seems recycled.