This was a great film. It was also a true life experience.

The storm is the most palpable character in this film. While the waves are high and nerve-wracking, the characters never quite stir up any emotional reaction -- be it the sentimental love story threaded haphazardly through the movie, or the one-dimensional, uninteresting macho bravado that serves as the only source of dramatic tension throughout.

The worst, most pitifull, awful, boring apocalypse I've ever seen on film.

Once again we see that the most spectacular special effects can't rescue a depiction of an actual event repopulated with idiot characters.

THe FX deliver, but the drama is cut-rate, and the characters don't really have all that depth. Some fo the stunts are impressive though, particularly Cloony cutting an anchor loose int eh midst of the storm. In the end, though, it achieves a slight ting of resonance, and the first rate musical score is pleasant.

(6.5) Some moviemakers no longer trust actors. Not with acting anyway. You know this is a pretty good cast, and I know this is a pretty good cast, but the script doesn't care - and as it turns out, neither does the storm. The storm, you see, is the star. It's in the title, after all. And as the star, it is very VERY impressive. Clooney and Co. are just there for face time, and we know this early. The tools are the makings of a modern Shakespearean spectacle: men separated from home and loved ones by a final doomed traverse through the best bluster Mother Nature can muster, etc. But for it to work like Shakespeare, the actors need to be let loose, free to go over the top, to yell gutteral screams in the face of the tempest. The problem is that this movie is also trying to be a tribute to the everyman lifestyle - boots and baseball caps and stubble and money for bills. So just as the storm is winding up for the knockout, that's when the actors are playing it down. As the storm finally subsides, you get the strange sensation that you know as much about these people as you could have gleaned from the newscaster reporting their disappearance, and that maybe some important acting went down with the ship - before it ever set sail. … Expand

Very Good Movie.

A truly inspring and touching movie that has great themes in it. It is about courage and responsibility. I have been spritually lifted by the film. I can't understand how people can not appreciate the beauty of it. Maybe thsoe who do not possess those qualities are prevented from seeing them.

A pitiful movie. All the money was put into the special effects and none to anything that was worth while. Dont see this movie.

This is amongst one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I only gave it a 3 because the waves looked good in 2000. It's doesn't seem to go anywhere and the movie made no effort of making me want to care about the crew. The only up side to this movie is that it is not a bad as Miami Vice (Movie).

The Perfect Storm is movie based on a true story, about a skipper (captain) and his crew of a sword fishing boat going out and fishing in one of the worst storms to hit New England. The crew goes through trials of will and character when many things go wrong on the boat throughout the trip. The movie is based off a true story that actually happened about a boat that was lost to a freak accident of nature creating what meteorologists call the perfects storm. Overall the perfect storm was a great movie in my eyes had great acting, good visuals, awesome story and fantastic realism all mixed in one. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys movies based on true events. The perfect storm was overall a great movie for it being based off real events. The story was great, I would give it a 9 out of 10. The acting was fantastic I had no problem believing that George Clooney Mark Walberg and the rest of the crew were fisherman. When George Clooney says “I will find the fish, I always find the fishâ€� at the beginning of the movie it sent chills down my spine, I could really feel the passion he had for his role as captain of a sword boat. Near the end of the movie the ship starts to sink after trying to make it up what looks like a wave the size of a 4 story building and ends up sinking. After the boat sinks mark Walberg escapes and George Clooney almost does to but decides to go down with the ship like a real skipper should. After Mark Walberg escapes he makes a speech at the end of the movie just floating in the water that nearly brought a tear to my eye. I felt so bad for his girlfriend losing what seemed like her soul mate. The acting in this movie was so good I was enthralled with the story and felt like I was really there and that the outcome of the movie actually affected my life. The realism of the movie was also great, very similar as to what it was like to be on a real sword boat. I am an avid watcher of the series Swords a television reality show about what it is like to fish on a real sword boat and the movie was spot on with what actually goes on in these boats and how the crew acts. Even down to the boat they used in the movie looked exactly like a boat that came out of Gloucester, mass in fact 10 years after the movie was filmed; they took the boat used in the movie painted it over and turned it into a regular fishing boat in Gloucester harbor. The routine and the weather that the crew braved few were pretty accurate except for a few exaggerations near the end of the movie when the boat tries to make it up a 100 foot wave. The storyline itself was an exceptional tale for being based of a true story, it kept me on the edge of my seat through the whole movie. Although there were a few details in the story that were skewed just for the sole purpose of making a exciting fluid movie that sold tickets. Linda green law the female skipper in the beginning of the movie was not really friends with Billy Tyme the skipper played but George Clooney; in fact they never even met in real life. also in the beginning of the movie when Linda brings in her huge catch and Billy (George Clooney) has a greatly smaller catch it was in fact the opposite it was Billy who had the huge catch and Linda who was struggling to find the fish that season. Besides the few flaws in actual facts the storyline was great and a lot of the other facts were very much true like the lady that worked at the crow’s nest really having a son on the boat that was lost in the storm. The special effects in the movie were also fantastic. You could tell that parts of the movie and some waves were digitally animated but for a movie that is 10 years old I was pretty impressed with the visuals of the movie. The boat perfectly represented what a real sword fishing boat looked like. At some points in the movie you could tell the crew wasn’t really out out to sea, but what else can except for a movie that is almost 11 years old. For the most part if I was watching the movie back in 2000 I would be amazed with the special effects, in fact I think I was amazed back when I watched it at 12 years old. Overall the movie was great, I give it a 9 out of 10. Except for a few flaws in the real story facts and some aging special effects, I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys fishing and enjoys a movie based on true events. The acting was good, the realism was on spot, and the visuals were good and the storyline was intriguing. I couldn’t have enjoyed the movie more and it is definitely a movie I will get on DVD and watch over again.… Expand