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 a fine disaster movie. It suffers from all the usual schmaltz, but when the waves start ramping up, so does the excitement. That said, a bit more character depth and a few less extraneous characters (like the helicopter or sail boat crew) would have served this movie better.

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 â… Expand

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The thing that really irks me about THE PERFECT STORM is that I had read that it was a disaster film (and it's made pretty much clear in the title), but the actual disaster didn't get started for a whole forty minutes, which almost brought me to the point of thinking that "Perfect Storm" was some kind of metaphor. The basic layout is as follows: 1-30 minutes - characters are introduced with enough relationship statuses, innuendos, overly charismatic drama to create an entire soap opera; 31-40 minutes - the characters leave their spouses/fiancées, board the ship, but continue with the non sequiturs and double entendres that make you groan, "Enough already!"; 41-120 minutes - over an hour of TITANIC-esque intensity and dazzling (but terrifying, considering this is based on a true story) disaster scenes--which is exciting, but it makes you think, "We go from soap opera...to disaster?", because the beginning does NOT make sense to the rest of the film; 121-128 minutes - the film is coming to an end, with slightly less intensity, but thankfully no "return of the soap opera"; 129 minutes - the film's over, folks, you can go home now. That's the gist of this mediocre movie. It's just what you expect of a shipwreck film.… Expand

The Perfect Diasaster. I have never seen a more boring, eventless, badly directed and acted film. Avoid at all costs. Nothing happens and it's not interesting in the slightest.