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Summary: Pure Crap
Review: I saw this moview (unfortunately) in the theatre ... what a waste of good money ... and then I had to endure it the other night at a friend's place. I'm thinking about revoking that friendship!!Give me a break. These moronic characters are essentially pure fiction. Tell me, how did the author, director, producer, etc know what occured once they were beyond communication range?? Why did they keep pushing forward knowing that the weather was horrible?? Who says they are heroes (as the commercials are doing at the moment) when they caused the (supposed) deaths of 2 SAR Techs?? Just dumb. Ususally I check my brain at the door and enjoy the movie, but this was impossible with this movie. The only good thing about the movie was the cast. Can't beat Mark Wahlberg (Boogie Nights) or John C. Reilly (Magnolia). Clooney was okay.
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Summary: Perfect Storm
Review: Since the television previews showed the best parts of The Perfect Storm, You won't have to waste your money buying it like I did. I suggest you rent it instead.
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Summary: This one's a renter
Review: Okay, so a lot of people think George Clooney is a hunk, likewise for Mark Wahlberg--and they didn't do a bad job with what they had. But honestly, men don't usually talk this way, especially fisherman! The dialogue had no sense of reality--it sounded straight from Hollywood. Of course, had the movie spent the first half on taciturn fishermen, it would really have been a loser, but still. The dialogue at the end was troubling, where rather than casting recriminations at one another for making a foolish choice based on greed, the young guy... tells the captain they HAD to try. I was further bothered by the claim that it was based on a true story. Well, the boat actually disappeared with all hands, but pretty much everything else is speculation, and some of it fairly nonsensical. (Climbing up rigging that is slamming back and forth in a hurricane without a safety rope, but with a blowtorch ON! Yeah, sure...) Special effects are terrific, true, and lots of the action is gripping; but this movie would be much better in a large screen theatre than at home. There is a good side story about a Coast Guard rescue helicopter than I found more interesting than the main plot line. Although I enjoyed the movie, I honestly can't imagine anyone wanting to see it twice, unless they really thrill to seeing Clooney and Wahlberg getting water thrown in their faces...maybe it will help you visualise being in the shower with them. The real question about purchasing this movie is: Do you really want to spend [the] bucks for great computer-generated waves? Oh yeah, the swordfish are very convincing, too. Now for a helpful hint, so that you can vote that this is a helpful review: If you are ever fishing and pull up a large shark; or if you are ever near someone who does, NEVER stick your foot in the shark's mouth. Really. I'm not kidding. Apparently some people don't know this...Didn't he ever see Jaws?
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Summary: Creative license
Review: Great special effects, so-so acting, but the real problem with this movie is its creative license. The Andrea Gail was lost at sea, and nobody (including the book's author and the film's director) really know what happened in the "middle of the monster". The ship could have been overwhelmed by the first 50 foot wave to hit it. The action sequences are breathtaking, sure, but why base it on the true Gloucester story if there are no factual accounts of the events at sea with the Andrea Gail (except for the fact that these morons actually headed into the storm)? At least other true stories at sea like Titanic and the more recent U-571 had corroborating facts to tell the story. Perfect Storm is Wolf Petersen's attempt at fiction/non-fiction.
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Summary: half boring half good
Review: it takes a least 45 mn before any action starts.it's very long and boring.... action in itself is great but the sound of this movie is very poor.no spécial effect on sound even on 6.1 version and a lot of noise mainly. This movie is surely not a masterpiece.
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Summary: Has its moments, but....
Review: Luckily, given the outstanding quality of today's technology available for viewing films, almost ANY movie is watchable. "The Perfect Storm" was no exception. However, as easy as George Clooney is on the eyes, Mark Wahlberg, (forever emblazoned in my memory as that pathetic moron in "Boogie Nights") is equally as irritating. The plot was initially promising, but once that vessel took to the high seas and encountered the "Storm" it became repetitive and monotonous. In addition, the ending held no realism for me at all. As a matter of fact, it was one of times you fully expect the movie to shift to an entirely different scene in order to achieve some sort of closure. Instead you are left with that "Is that the END?" feeling. Graphics were great of course, and very realistic. And as fond as I am of action films, the "Storm" just had too darn much of it - to the point of being irritating.
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Summary: water water everywhere
Review: god, this movie was awful! i hoped at least for an interesting special effects movie, but it was so hopelessly cut and spliced that the effects weren't even effective. as for the so-called story, there wasn't any, except a half hour of cliched set-up. this movie is a How Not To - a story that could have been a seagoing "apollo 13" was instead less interesting than a long does of the weather channel.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: The Perfect Storm VHS~ George Clooney is an amzing movie with awesome special effects and a cast that is litterally to die for. George Clooney is very good and one wonders why he wasted so many years on that sorry series, i.e., E.R. The other actors are also very blievable and their stories dot seem phony or forced. The storm scenes are amazing and should have gotten an academy award. The only problem is that sometimes the actors performance comes second hand and a little too much is focused on the storm (even if this is the major plot of the movie). If Mr. Clooney stars in more movies like this one, i.e., The Perfect Storm, then I might( I did not say I would) see another movie that he is cast in.
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Summary: Perfect What?
Review: Honestly, I had no interest in seeing this movie. I was tricked into seeing it over the 4th of July holiday; I think alcohol was involved...or money, something. Anyway, "The Giant Wave Movie" just seemed like it would never end while I was watching it. It moved at the pace of water draining from the bathtub. Really, besides the special effects, there isn't much to this movie. Poor character development, poor pacing of the story, and no surprise at the end due to two things: 1) The Weather Channel spoiled it for me with their "special report" and 2) The giant wave seen in the trailer that was played in front of every movie this summer that NO ONE could possibly survive on any kind of sea-faring vessel! Me thinks that the "hunk factor" played a big part in causing this film to gross over 100 million at the box office, drawing bucks away from "The Patriot," which wasn't a great film, but still better than "The Perfect Storm." Why else would people willingly pay for a two-hour film about drowning fishermen with a tacked-on Hollywood ending? Drowning fisherman: boring; drowning George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg: dreamy! Overall, two stars for special effects; minus three stars for being boring and poorly developed. Shame on you Clooney and Wahlberg, you made "Three Kings." "The Perfect Storm" was not a healthy follow-up.
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Summary: Great effects, but no story to keep you involved...
Review: Like I said in the title of this review, there wasn't much of a story to keep you interested in this movie. There were great special effects but you have to wait until the end of the movie to see them, it seems like the script was written so that all of the characters could develop relationships with someone so that once you've seen the end you're supposed to be sad, but the plot develpment seems so deliberate that you don't really care. There isn't that much that happens in between the beginning and end to really move the picture. There isn't very much depth given to the characters to really care for them. Rent this one!
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