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Summary: One of the best of all time
Review: Let's take a true tragedy, put it on film, and stun the world. What do we get? One of the greatest movies ever created. The entire world can now know what these fisherman go through for the public. The movie itself was an astounding achievement in special effects. It kept you thinking about the truth to this tale. From the humble beginning to the sadly tragic ending, this movie is one for the ages.
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Summary: Okay but not worth buying
Review: Really, this movie isn't quite as bad as all the one-star reviewers would have you believe. Once the storm gets going it's actually a pretty pretty riveting and exciting film. The problem is that it takes like an hour and a half for the storm to get going, and for all that time we have to sit through dull, unrealistic, shallow character development and James Horner's gloopy, overused music score. It's really hard to like the first half of this movie, which manages to misuse such brilliant performers as Mark Wahlberg and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (so good in another aquatic adventure film, The Abyss) with so much sentimental, unbelievable dialogue. Once the fishermen go out to sea, we can guess that basically everything going on is purely fiction, and it's not hard to make that assumption because everything that goes on is so rigidly cinematic and it's almost like the characters know they're in a summer blockbuster movie. But let's be honest: we're here for the storm, not the characters, and the film certainly delivers one hell of a storm. The last half hour or so is a jolting rollercoaster ride that leaves you exhausted and exhilarated, and that's why most people go to the movies on summer Saturday afternoons. The film did exactly what it was meant to, which is cram people into theatres on the weekend. Owning the film on video or DVD is a different matter, though. Even if you're impressed by the storm, as I was, you still get the idea that the film simply will not hold up under close scrutiny or repeated viewings. It's worth seeing once or twice, but after that, I really don't know.
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Summary: George Clooney
Review: George Clooney is the worst actor ever. I also believe he is the most unintelligent actor ever. The movie itself is terrible, and George Clooney gives a typically terrible performance. Why waste your time with this trash when you could go to the nearest dumpster and find something infinitely more appetizing. I think George Clooney should be in a western...no thought, no emotion, just a surgeon's hands and a shiny gun, John Wayne did it, he could too.
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Summary: The saddest, truest movie yet!
Review: This movie had to be one of the most incredible, heart and gut wrenching ones I ever saw! It's a true story and for anyone to say "let the fishes eat them" has no idea what it's really like to live a life as a fisherman! The men on the Andrea Gail had no idea that this kind of a storm was to take place and I believe that the writing, the effects, and the actors brought the real men back to life! This movie was the greatest of all time and it was believable enough to make me watch it over and over again. George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg grabbed me from the very beginning and to me, that is what great actors do...they take you right in and make you feel as if you experienced all the horrors that the families experienced!
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Summary: The perfect movie
Review: Ok, maybe not exactly perfect, but pretty darn good. Clooney and cast are excellent and blend extremely well together. A great addition to your video library!
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Summary: A TOTAL CROWD PLEASER.
Review: Hello all. I just wanted to say what an awesome movie this was. I took the time and went to see it and I have to admit I did not read the book but I saw the film and just sat in my chair and cheered. The special effects are out of this world. Wolfgang Peterson has yet done it again. He is one of the most spectacular filmakers of all. Air Force One was a great one directed by him as well. This movie starts off telling you about the characters and how they set off to their adventure. The movie is excellent. How they show the storms forming and how it combines to form "The Perfect Storm". The waves are so well done, and quite a tear-jerker for those who cry a lot. What a movie. I suggest you all have this film on video because I will myself get it when it releases in November. .......... all those people who think it was bad, that it was not even close to the book! This movie is fantastic! Go see it!
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Summary: Perfect Storm: Not so Perfect
Review: After watching this movie, with it's awkward, stumbling dialogue and its pedestrian cinematics, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the masses of movie viewers who were packing themselves into theatres all over the United States to watch this overly formulaic piece of manufactured emotion. There is absolutely no saving grace to Perfect Storm. The dialogue is outright laughable and the characters, which were created through a five minute diatribe of impotent conflict and rhetorical nonsense, are hardly incarnations of the actual heroes. The story, which is an outright rape of Junger's novel, revolves around a group of sword fisherman who's voyage to the flemmish cap is wrought with peril. After much useless, unrealistic dialogue and a few gratuitous tears, the movie ends and the audience leaves, most of them completely captivated by the movie's manufactured emotional content. If you don't like to think and are easily entertained by low-brow story-telling, buy this movie. If not, try something else.
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Summary: Perfectly Awful
Review: Its all very well basing a film on a true-life event, but that event has to be interesting enough to be dramatised. This event wasn't. Yes, there was tension as a group of impovorished fisherman travel further than they would normally to find some fish to continue earning a livelihood. yes there was drama as on the way back from their fishing, their boat is caught up in the middle of a terrifying storm. But the storm is not as terrifiying as it could have been, and completely drowns out any intelligent conversation. Having said that, the first hour of the film deals with the introductions to the characters, and the conversations then are not particularly intelligent. The film fundementally falls down, becuase the events it portrays are so ordinary. Only the storm is special, everything else is run-of-the-mill. Its like you or me going out for the day, and getting caught up in a snow-storm, crashing the car, and getting killed. The crash would be the focal point in the film, the rest of it would just be boring. The acting does not help the cause; George Clooney doesn't come across as a rugged fisherman type, neither does Mark Walhberg - the ability to sport a beard is not the only qualification in playing someone from the great outdoors. In particular however, the love interests in the poor lives of these fishermen were portrayed terribly. The best (or worst) example of this was the large woman who met one of the fishermen in the pub during the film's opening, and basically told him where to go. At the end of the film when the deaths of our brave heroes are announced and the funnerals take place, you see the same woman unconvincingly weeping uncontrollably. Unneccesary and laughable emotion, but deemed worthy to try and boost the film. It didn't work, and neither did the film.
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Summary: Not perfect, but still quite good.
Review: Having read Sebastian Junger's exciting and poignant book (and gripping the arm of the chair while doing so), I was greatly anticipating the movie version. After all, you had Wolfgang Petersen (DAS BOOT, AIR FORCE ONE) in the director's chair and an excellent cast, so what more could you want? Well, it ain't a perfect movie, but it still vastly entertaining. Movies about disasters are probably the most difficult to pull off, if for no other reason than the event itself becomes the main character, and the humans merely supporting cast, and they aren't interesting and at least believable, forget it. All you have left is some jaw-dropping eye candy and idiotic people you wouldn't want to pass the time of day with. The characters in THE PERFECT STORM are about as fleshed out as possible-some more than others: the divorced fisherman with a young son, another divorced fisherman with a new love and the captain of a fishing boat whose luck seems to have run out. They may not have much depth, but George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and especially John C. Reilly (who will tear your heart out towards the end) bring these people to life in a way that makes you overlook the shortcomings of this film. These are: wasting actors Cherry Jones, Karen Allen, Bob Guinton and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in roles that might have been interesting if there had been something for us to remember, but there really isn't (although Mastrantonio does get to be the voice of doom); not giving us any familiar faces in the crew of the rescue chopper so that we could at least feel something for them instead of wondering who was who; and all that weatherman needed to make his performance complete was just a little drooling as he looked at the satellite photos! The effects work is just astounding (especially the killer wave and the one that Wahlberg sees towards the end), the score by James Horner proves that since TITANIC, he just might be improving and the bit players actually add some atmosphere to the film and make you feel like you are right there in the bar and on the boat. As disaster films go, THE PERFECT STORM is no TITANIC or AIRPORT, but it is closer to them than it is to EARTHQUAKE or THE SWARM. All in all, a good popcorn film.
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Summary: What a ride!
Review: "The Perfect Storm" is a movie that lives up to "The thrill ride of the year!" phrase. The movie takes a while to get going, it spends the first hour setting up the characters and telling us about them. When the storm finally hits the film turns into a non stop action film. The action scenes in this movie are astounding to watch, mainly because of the awesome computer generated waves. The action never stops for a second, and it will leave you with a sense of awe, I know it left me like that. I recommend seeing his movie in theaters, home video will diminish it's impact.
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