Chris Pine

Casey Affleck

Ben Foster

Eric Bana

Holliday Grainger

John Ortiz

Kyle Gallner

John Magaro

Graham McTavish

Michael Raymond-James

Beau Knapp

Josh Stewart

Abraham Benrubi

Keiynan Lonsdale

Rachel Brosnahan

Benjamin Koldyke

Matthew Maher

Jesse Gabbard

Alexander Cook

Danny Connelly

Angela Hope Smith

John Franchi

Lance Norris

Michael Maggiani

Christopher Ferguson

Jered Zalman

Aaron Vexler

Craig Gillespie

Tim Trella

Peter Epstein

Paul Tamasy

Scott Silver

Eric Johnson

Jodi Michelle Pynn

Michael J. Tougias

Dorothy Aufiero

Michael Corenblith

Douglas C. Merrifield

Javier Aguirresarobe

Casey Sherman

Carter Burwell

Tatiana S. Riegel

Mindy Marin

Louise Frogley

Jim Whitaker

William Ladd Skinner

Kara Lipson

Whitney James

Peter Zuccarini

J.M. Hunter

Mary L. Hart-Mastro

Donna Casey-Aira

Adam Milo Smalley

Desne J. Holland

Parrish Kennington

Diane Durant

Brenda McNally

Paula Dion

Rebecca Woodfork

Samantha Avila

Jamie Alac

Trish Seeney

Claire Folger

Phil Darrell

Joe Rossi

Beau Desmond

Linda Kaufman

Brian Heller

Aimee McCue

Scott D. Davis

Mark J. Casey

Susan Benjamin

Raul Hernandez

Juliet Loveland

Adriano Rinaldi

Felix Crawshaw

Stefan Sonnenfeld

Lorrie Campbell

Paul Wishart

Aaron Deerfield

Garrett Wilson

Kevin T. Hahn

Annie Johnson

John T. Cucci

Joseph Kearney

Clint Wallace

Chris Ryan

Dean A. Zupancic

Steven M. Saylor

Andy Koyama

Danny Singh

Dan O'Connell

Craig 'Tex' Barnett

Cameron Matheson

Stephani DeLuca

Ran Sieradzki

Chris Kowal

Thomas MacKenzie

Aaron Weintraub

Bria Kinter

Albert Gasser

Tom Goodenough

Steve Bobertz

Joe Ken

Mark P. Stoeckinger

Gong Myung Lee

Daniel Boccoli

Tom Driscoll

Robert Andrew Johnson

Seth Maury

Paul V. Molles

Mark Hawker

John Sanacore

Tim Walston

Masako Masuda

Dan Marshall

Daniel S. Irwin

Luke Gibleon

Daniel Saxlid

Seacia Pavao

David Gulick

Airon Armstrong

Josh Vinyard

Action

Drama

History

Thriller

The Finest Hours

Red Hawk Entertainment

Walt Disney Pictures

Whitaker Entertainment

Bergsten Music

United States of America

Reno

> 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 as close to how it would have looked 65 years ago and as well to avoid the errors.

I never saw its trailer or the teaser, but I knew about this project and after seeing its posters I though it would be about the offshore oil rig. When I saw the film, I realised I was wrong and surprise do such thing happen in real.

The film was also did not let my interest fall. Thanks to the director who always try different genre yet he's not a mega budget filmmaker. A good film, but like I said should have been even better. Especially should have out classed in the sentimental segments. I don't know how good was the digital 3D version of it, but still this regular version is worth to give it a shot.

7½/10

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.

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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