32 survivors, room for 12.
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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Earnest, grave, resolved and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Renoon TMDB · Jun 20167.5/10
> A very much acceptable film that inspired by a real event except long pauses and too much ineffective sentiment. A disaster drama-thriller based on the true account of the 1952. So much better film than I anticipated. But there are a few things I did not like; like the frequent pauses in the narration where nothing really happens other that space given for the emotional background score to pull the viewers in. In a result, it did not work, definitely not for me. Yeah, in the many important scenes, it froze like it happens in the chess games before anybody move their pawn. In the crucial part of the narration, when the boat was overcrowded, there was an unnecessary pause which annoyed me. It was surely a remarkable segment of the story, but sentimentally failed to appeal or maybe you can call it a too much of the sentiment. Honestly, I liked the story, but the film exceeded its runtime to slow down the portrayal of the event which is surely a drawback than any kind of benefit. I loved the performances, everybody was good and so the CGI, which was not a top notch yet acceptable. Especially as it takes place in the dark time, they had the advantage to depict the atmosphere as much a
Read the whole review on TMDB - StbMDBon TMDB · May 20179/10
First and foremost this film reminds me of Hacksaw Ridge, second and no less important it's just as good as the afore mentioned film in the sense that the main character is just as law-bound as the religious lad in Hacksaw going about his day saving people's lives in the middle of a hurricane, ergo in The Finest Hour's case while on sea - with a life-guard boat, just as feature-some as the soldier saving soldiers in the middle of a war without shooting a f#cking gun! And, supposedly, this happened in real life! #OhLordy that was a good watch.
Read the whole review on TMDB - r96skon TMDB · Nov 20207/10
Good. Nothing more than that, but nothing less either. <em>'The Finest Hours'</em> is a little bit too on the nose in parts, I felt like some of the cast were overacting here and there - especially Casey Affleck (Ray), not that he is bad though. Chris Pine is enjoyable in the lead role. Pacing is iffy, but the effects are excellent - from the ships to the water scenes, impressive! The (true) story, meanwhile, is as hearty as you'd expect. Worth watching.
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Cast
- Chris PineBernie Webber
- Casey AffleckRay Sybert
- Ben FosterRichard Livesey
- Eric BanaDaniel Cluff
- Holliday GraingerMiriam Webber
- John OrtizWallace Quirey
- Kyle GallnerAndy Fitzgerald
- John MagaroErvin Maske
- Graham McTavishFrank Fauteux
- Michael Raymond-JamesD.A. Brown
Crew
- Craig GillespieDirector
- Scott SilverScreenplay
- Eric JohnsonScreenplay
- Paul TamasyScreenplay
- Javier AguirresarobeDirector of Photography
- Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer
- Tatiana S. RiegelEditor
- Dorothy AufieroProducer
- Jim WhitakerProducer
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