gmppp this movie is nothing to write home about...the acting is bad given the cast, but the special effects are pretty good. I had to laugh at the part where the captain had to torch cut the stabilizing anchor, pretty outlandish stuff. That's the problem with movies based on true stories. We don't know what happened out there to these people and it's a sad story, but adding outlandish dramatizations? does it work or take-away from it? This is the problem with the 1.5-2 hour movie time-frame, not very substantive, cheap and fast.... I especially had to laugh at the part where the captain finally declares that it's time to turn around...really? And I can't help wondering why they didn't divert to Newfoundland and wait the storm out? A little to late don't you think? If they had any notions that there was a hurricane brewing or, as the film implied, a broken ice machine where they had to get back or lose their catch, they could have gone to Newfoundland to make some other arrangements. It's an okay movie...but that's about it.

juneebuggy The Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history.I caught this on TV the other night, its been a few years since I've seen it now and I'd forgotten about all the wonderful side stories and the lead up to the actual "perfect storm." The girlfriends and family back home at the Crows Nest bar, "Marian" on the sailboat, the weather channel dude and the coast guard rescue.Still a great movie 10 years on, superb special effects and a thrilling story even though parts of it were a bit over the top (Clooney with the welders torch on the teeter-tottering stabilizer?!) and the fact that every little incident explained in the book is used in a single trip here (sharks, man overboard, etc.) Still it makes for a gripping ride and the ensuing battle getting the Andrea Gail through the storm is amazing. The ending makes me cry every single time, and this was no exception. I might just have to read Sabastian Ungers book again, I remember it being really good too. 04.28.14

utahman1971 WOW, a movie that just spends more than half the time on a boat. Boring movie. Okay, one thing the helicopter tries to get gas, but the pilot has to play like a video game joystick to get the gas put into the helicopter from a plane. WTH? That was the dumbest thing I ever seen. Oh, at the time the boat crashes the guy floats in water, and acts like he is talking to his wife, and like she is listening to him, but she isn't at all. How is that good? There is so many terrible things going on here.The captain is so gung ho on going right into the storm and dying instead of going home when he should of in the first place. This is so dumb. They got this on television. This should not even be a 6 on this site. It is that terrible. The camera is moving around so much it is hard to tell if anything is going on. I thought the first time I saw it in theater in 2000, it was okay, but still not enough to be a 6 on a rating.Just a very long movie that boring.

mike48128 I had the misfortune of seeing this on cable on one of those channels that runs tons of commercials and "pop-ups" on the screen. See it uncut. Parts of it are truly spellbinding and shouldn't be diminished by interruptions. In essence, a perfect storm is a situation where everything goes completely wrong at the same time. Here we have a film, based on the true story of the boat "The Andrea Gale", of 6 brave fishermen trying to make a living in one of the most dangerous of all professions: They are underpaid sword-fishermen, from Gloucester, Mass. On their journey, one gets tangled up in the bait-hook line and is pulled overboard. One is nipped badly by a shark. Many overboard rescues, as they battle the storm due to desperation for the "perfect catch" and travel too far away from safe waters. Not for the squeamish, as baiting, harpooning and gutting the catch is vividly portrayed. The "Storm of the Century", in 1991, was the intersection of as many as 3 different (or more) tropical storms off of Bermuda. Most of the action, as the doomed crew tries very desperately to turn the boat around, is both fanciful and actual, because after the radio failed, no one knows exactly what really happened. The ship's mast breaks. The refrigeration fails. The anchor crashes through the windows. A Coast Guard helicopter goes down trying to attempt rescue. (They run out of fuel because they rescue people from a small yacht on the way there, and then airborne refueling fails.) Had they been able to fly directly to the boat, a rescue might have been possible. So many things go wrong at once that the brave crew never has a chance. An unbelievable giant "wall of water" capsizes the boat for the very last time. The perfect disaster. Fantastic action and special effects. Some salty language. The storm scenes "feel" real. Great performances by George Clooney and Mark Wahlburg. Quite an intense experience, and I saw it on a "small" 50 inch screen!