The Perfect Storm details
| Formats: | 12 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Cherry Jones, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, John Hawkes, Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney, Dash Mihok, Allen Payne, Mark Wa, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Gunton, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Rusty Schwimmer, Josh Hopkins |
| Director: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure, Drama - General, Biography, Thriller |
| Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Collections: | 100 Top Thrillers, May Picks, Staff Picks |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Perfect Storm |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 9 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 27 Nov 2000 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Dubbed: | German |
| Subtitles: | Danish, English, German, Icelandic, Norwegian |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English, German |
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Deserves to sink without trace.
By a customer from Wales , 07 Jul 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
The film tries to cover as much as the book it's based on (by Sebastian Junger), but spreads itself too thin. It's neither hard-core docu-drama, which the scale of the events really needs, nor personal tragedy, which a tighter script could have delivered. As it is, there are just too many events too lightly touched on, and too many characters too thinly drawn.
And as for the special effects, CGI is still at the stage where in a PC game you'd go, 'wow this is great', but in live-action cinema CGI waves helicopters and boats just look fake. Really, I got no impression of the sheer force and terror of the seas being faced, and was left uninvolved and unmoved.
The book, though, (same name) is a great read, and that I recommend.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(61)The Perfect Pass Time!
By a customer , 03 Apr 2013wasnt the best, wasnt the worse, effects where brilliant and non of the actors put in a bad performance. its a good pass time although i feel something is missing..- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Perfect Waste of Time...
By a customer , 11 Sep 2012Painful, needlessly soppy, badly researched, but some good big waves (hence the half star!). For a film apparently based on a true story, there's not much of a story and it must be pretty loosely based. For anyone with any knowledge of boats (like has played with one in the bath) this will be a painful two hours. My favourite bit was my husband screaming with laughter at various ridiculous scenarios. Choose a different film!- Was this review helpful to you?
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totally brilliant
By cheesekake (1283 reviews) from uk , 04 Mar 2012very very good film
lots of action and very sad, on such a serious subject, makes you realise what the trawlermen go through to make a living- Was this review helpful to you?
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swoosh swoosh
By a customer , 18 Oct 2011i have not read the book, but it is probably going to be better. The story is predictable, however the photography is spectacular. It is worth watching for that.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Read the book!
By a customer , 14 Oct 2011I watched this film because I recently read the book which is AMAZING and couldn't get it out of my head. Although the film didn't ruin the memory of the book and in most aspects it's a fairly true account (in brief) I don't think I really gained anything by seeing the film and the book just offers sooooo much more. As a film in itself, I don't think it in any way captures the story or the characters, but maybe that's hard for me to judge, post book. It would have been interesting to see the story made in a more indie/docu way - I found the cheesy, melodramatic hollywood soundtrack intensely irritating. I felt George Clooney's character has been sexed up/altered for the film, but the other characters were OK.- Was this review helpful to you?
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