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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and scenes of peril
Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Diane Lane
The film follows a sudden and violent storm -- the emotional ups and downs of the six stranded fishermen, the surviving families and the rescue crews. Based on a true story.
| GENRE(S): | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Sebastian Junger (book)
William D. Wittliff |
| DIRECTED BY: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 14, 2000 Video: November 14, 2000 Theatrical: June 30, 2000 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 129 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
Received two 2001 Oscar nominations for Sound and Visual Effects.
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Yvette G. gave it a10:
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.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
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.
raVen gave it a 7:
(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.
Jeff L. gave it a 5:
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.
John K. gave it a 10:
Very Good Movie.
Pat C. gave it a 4:
Once again we see that the most spectacular special effects can't rescue a depiction of an actual event repopulated with idiot characters.
Ryan M. gave it a 0:
The worst, most pitifull, awful, boring apocalypse I've ever seen on film.
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