When Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor was released in 2001, audiences expected an epic World War II film capturing the heartbreak and heroism of the infamous attack on December 7, 1941.

What they received instead was a sprawling, melodramatic love story masquerading as a war film.

Many fans and critics alike have since labelled it as one of the worst World War II films ever made.

The film follows best friends Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) as they navigate love, war,…