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Summary: What a perfect load of rubbish
Review: The best bit was when the big wave came along and put messrs Clooney, Wahlberg, et al out of their misery. It's a pity they couldn't have crashed the boat into the pier and sunk right at the beginning as that would have saved us from sitting through two hours of this rot masquerading as high drama. They should make a movie about the harsh lives of cubicle dwellers, how we have to brave rainstorms, etc. to go get our lunch from the deli & so on.
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Summary: "Das Boot" for dim bulbs
Review: What can I say? P.U. Poor Wolfgang - he borrows material shamelessly from his own "Das Boot", from the opening "party" (funny how these Glouchester types are even cruder than the U-Boat crews!) to the stocking-up of stores on-board to the shot of the departing ship (although at that point, *I* was whistling "a threeee hour tour"....) But where "Das Boot" was authentic right down to the claustrophobic set, "Storm" gets downright silly. I was astonished at the scene (obviously made-up to create empathy for our silly sailors) where one man gets dragged overboard and two other hard-drinkin', hard-SMOKING guys dive right in after him and swim about 100 yards UNDERWATER in a HURRICANE, FIND HIM, grab the poor sap, and then CATCH UP to the boat. Uh-huh, yeah, OK. THAT'S what kind of movie ya got here, folks. (I also want to know the secret of how they managed to light those cigarettes in a hurricane, while we're at it.) Let's not even get into the total absence of life vests, use of transponders, or why the poor TV weather-guy is made to look like a villain. ALL of the characters were of the flimsiest cardboard (except George Clooney, poor guy, who simply can NOT be ANYbody other than George Clooney: dress him up in surgical scrubs, a sailor suit, desert camo fatigues - same George.) The James Horner soundtrack suffers from extreme emotional bloat - but the RANGE of emotions is from drippy to gooey to simply sacharine. Ugh. And was it my imagination, or did those big bad waves GROWL just like the tornadoes in this flick's foster-father "Twister"? No, I haven't read the book. I've read "South" (long before "Into Thin Air" re-popularized the disaster genre) and several books on Great Lakes shipping disasters. I've heard that the book is a fine look into the chain of decisions that seemed reasonable at the time but lead inevitably to the watery fate depicted. This film, though, is a waterlogged piece of Hollywood-ized history, insulting to all but the most feeble of intelligences and yet another example of CGI technology overcoming plot and character development. Better "adversity at sea" movies: along with "Das Boot", there's "The Caine Mutiny", "The Cruel Sea", or even "Moby Dick" (the original, not the one with Capt. Picard.) Leave this hulk for the video scavengers.
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Summary: Perfect flop
Review: This could better be described as the "poor man's Titanic." After the initial special effects wear off you realize that there really is no story here...it's dumb and those idiots who went back out to fish deserved what they got. Don't waste you time or money...
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Summary: Deserves ZERO stars for trashing a great book
Review: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I know that you're not supposed to expect a movie to be as good as the book its based on, but THIS is an absolute travesty that cheapens the memory of the real people who died. Has Hollywood no shame? There are so many factual inacuracies and utter implausibilities that they can't all be listed here. And the cheesy background music destroys whatever excitment the well done visual effects might generate. The only positive thing that can be said is at least George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg LOOK right for their perspective parts. But they are given lines of dialog so unbelievably hokey and cliched that you almost feel sorry for them as actors. Bottom line is if you loved the book, stay far FAR away from this totally disrespectful farce.
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Summary: Almost unwatchable rubbish.
Review: It just goes to show that despite a good cast, including the resurgent Clooney, useful Wahlberg, and excellent John C. Reilly, a duff script will still give you a bad film. Revoltingly sentimental, cliched, trite guff. Every film convention has been wheeled out. A great dissapointment after Peterson's previous work.The only impression I got was that the fishermen deserved exactly what they got. Read the considerably more interesting book if you remain interested. and the special effects? Although I'm sure money was thrown at them from a great height, the huge waves still look fake. Don't waste your time. ...
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Summary: Just amazing
Review: This is a tail of the Andrea Gail and its crew as the venture to find fish to fish for. It shows how much the Capitan Billy and its crew want to get home and bring home its huge catch of fish. George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg totally deliver in this exciting film about Hurricane Grace and three other storms combine to make "the perfect storm". The special fxs are just plain amazing, all those waves and the stormy sky and with the heavy winds! Despite the known fate of the 5 doomed seamen; it gives you the thrill ride of your life. At the end of the movie when Mark Wahlberg talks to his wife it really makes you feel for them. The DVD ROM extras make it better with links to web sites, and the Warner Store. The three commentaries give you the director's point of view of what he was thinking during the filming. There are two other commentaries but not was important as the directors. Who cares of it isn't that historically accurate? Its supposivily tells the tail about 5 men who loved to fish and needed to bring home that huge catch to support their families. When Clooney shuts off the radio, its to show how much he loves to fish and how he wanted to prove everyone wrong.
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Summary: The perfect nap
Review: I don't know if I was just tired that day or what but this movie did not keep my interest at all. I saw it on home video and I walked away and came back toward the end when the people actually went out toward the sea. I'm sorry but this movie wasn't that good. Maybe you can see this movie in the afternoon when your bored or you don't have anything else better to do. Like take a nap.
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Summary: Acting and Action
Review: The perfect storm is what an action movie should be. Lots of action and suspense. And if the acting is good its a plus. There has been so many action movies where you say to yourself, "well the action was great, but the acting..." The perfect storm has both of these things. With George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg you're bound to get star quality acting and that's what you got. The other actors did a superb job also. Also the director, Wolfgang Peterson, was able to make you care for 4 different sets of people: the crew with Clooney, another boat with 2 women and an older man, the helicopter rescue team, and the people back home worrying for their loved ones. It's not often that you can make 4 sets of actors be believable and have the audience care for them but that's what Wolfgang did. Yes, the ending was depressing and done quickly but the other part of the film made up for it. The perfect storm is nearly perfect but falls on its face a bit at the end. 4 1/2 Stars but forced to give 5.
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Summary: A REALLY GREAT MOVIE BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Review: I got A Perfect Storm on DVD for Christmas from my mom. I really didn't know what to think at first being that I am not a big fan of Mark Whalberg and George Clooney. I was glued to the front of my TV for the entire movie when I finally watched it a couple of days after Christmas. The special effects in A Perfect Storm are nothing less than stunning!! The acting and character development of Clooney and Whalberg is fantastic- I didn't know these two guys had this much talent. I think many reviewers gave this movie a low rating because they were disappointed with the ending. Sorry, this movie is based on a true story and real life doesn't always give us the ending that we desire.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: I gave this film three stars for intense action and the special effects. It was very exciting, and the storm sequences kept me at the edge of my seat. But for those of you who are interested in the true story of the Andrea Gail, this isn't it. Reading the words, "based on a true story", makes you think there were survivors who described the actual events that took place. It was a real letdown to discover that all perished and the accounts were the figment of a Hollywood screenwriter's imagination. Although this film is for thrill seekers, not historians, it is entertaining, and entertainment is the reason movies are made.
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