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Such a frustrating disappointment

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Blistering performances.

A good example of what all popular blockbusters should be like in a perfect world: character-focused dramas, where the special effects are used to fit the storyline and not to simply make up for the lack of a storyline. THE PERFECT STORM is definitely one of the best films of 2000, which in itself was a pretty good year for movies, and works because of the characterisation and acting involved, factors which really make us care about the people in the film before putting them through their paces.Nobody really puts a wrong foot here, whether it's George Clooney as the weather-beaten captain who won't take no for an answer, or Mark Wahlberg as a fresh-faced rookie who stays loyal to his captain through the hardest times. As well as these two, the whole load of actors playing the crew members are fine, playing refreshingly non-clichéd characters. Acting stalwarts Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Ironside also show up to lend some solid support in what is a uniformly excellent cast.The CGI effects of huge 100 foot waves are seamlessly integrated into the actual water used on set, so that you're never less than convinced that what we see is taking place in the ocean - credibility gives this film a big plus. The pacing is slow at first, as we get introduced to the situation, but the build-up and the final battle for survival is phenomenal and breath-taking, which is what a good disaster movie should be. And all the time avoiding the typical clichés which a number of recent movies keep falling into. Also, for a mainstream film, the film is unusually downbeat in a poignant way, made all the more heart-rending due to the fact that it's a true story. THE PERFECT STORM is a film for all the family and a fine example of what a disaster movie should be; not much could be done to better it, in fact.

I like all the actors, and I think they did a reasonable job, and the effects were good, the story line was much more than just a bad storm, etc. etc. but the dramatic music throughout the movie was so distracting to the point that it became annoying. It got so that I was predicting...queue the happy elated music...queue the ominous music. It was a bit over the top for me. It reminded me of the Jurrasic Park movies which also contain over the top music. Otherwise, I would've voted for 7 or 8 as the movie did entertain me. I do appreciate good movie music, but film makers need to use it sparingly to enhance response, not create response. It's almost as if the music was a narrator, and I couldn't get past that.

This wasn't my first time when I watched this movie. I think I have seen it at least once before, but it's been quite long time..Yeah, title says everything. Impressive movie. Acting and plot isn't the best what I have seen, but that's not the movies point - being full of movie stars and plot twists. It's catastrophe movie after all. And based on true story.The ending is wistful, but I guess this was what happened then. I think this would be even better if this wouldn't based on true story and everybody don't die. Still, very good movie.

As movies these days tend to go, this was not half-bad.Let me say right off the bat that I don't like George Clooney too much. Many of his pictures tend to be about him rather than the plot. Or better put, he more or less IS the plot. He usually heroically, against all possible and impossible odds, saves the day, which is I find supremely irritating. Indeed, that is the pattern often followed by Hollywood when there's a big-shot "celebrity" starring.So to hear Georgie intone in his deadpan trademark too-sexy-for-this-flick voice "I wanna fish; it's what I do" was beyond hysterical!Anyway, I was not familiar with the background story, and thought right through the end that they were going to make it, for obvious reasons (the superhuman skipper in charge of the fishing vessel, of course!). I am deeply sorry about the fishermen who died that day, and even more so their families, but for the purposes of this picture, I have to confess to being glad about the corollary. I'm saturated to the brim with the schmaltzy, hyper-unrealistic happy-ending movies.