The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours is a movie whose potential you can clearly see, but whose execution falters in key spots, leading to a lackluster viewing experience. This is a true story of heroic people, but the movie fails to live up to them or their tale. Most of it is repetitive and dull, the "big" moments aren't anywhere near important or memorable enough, there's barely any characterization, and Chris Pine needs to stay far away from these roles. It should fill you with awe, not yawns.

I think this movie is suffering from fans wanting actual heroic action to be embellished to the point of absurdity, e.g. Fast and Furious X. The Truth is more exciting if you have to let yourself be immersed in it, and this movie draws heavily on the important aspects of the event. Like Pine's character at the end, I was exhausted. The effects at sea reflecting the actual 60' seas are spectacular and depart from reality only enough so we can tell what's happening.

Inoffensive is the perfect word for this movie. It's not great, by any stretch, though I do think it's directed well, and the cast is... fine, I guess? It's also not bad by any stretch. It's just... I dunno, it leaves you with nothing after the fact. You feel for the characters in the moment but immediately after the movie you forget about 98% of them. This is not a movie that is likely to make any kind of indent on you at all. It's just there, and it's fine for the time it takes to watch it.

08/15. That is all. Its not good, its not bad.

Decent enough. Like I was expecting, the highlights are obviously the effects-heavy boat scenes (boasting an impressive amount of know-how in regards to the mechanics of the boat -- not sure how realistic, though), with everything else just mild filler so that the 'hero's journey' (with love story and all) can be lazily implemented and lower this film into the homogenised glob of the more mediocre end of the survival blockbuster sub-genre.

So boring, and Chris Pine's character and his fiance are devastatingly unlikable. Despite being a real life story of heroism where real lives were on the line, there was absolutely no sense of tension at any point.

The inspiration is there, but never fully consumed in this retro yet shamefully predictable movie. The sea is where the avidness lies, allowing the true story to keep it's head above water.

With that sort of source material to work with, Disney's The Finest Hours feels like an old-fashioned adventure yarn that wants to inspire as much as thrill. It's a feel-good story that makes for a pretty good movie--solid if not stellar. And while it's marred by a bit of bad language, it's a good deal cleaner than your standard superhero flick or sci-fi adventure. The fact that it's based on a true story makes it just that much better. (pluggedin.com)

I will die younger than God intended, and it's all because of this BORING movie with horrendously BORING lead actors and unbelievably BORING writing about stuff that wasn't supposed to be boring at all! Damn you all who made this movie possible! You are BORING!

Sort of reminded me of Brooklyn (2015) with it's 50s Irish-American nostalgia and artificial beauty, before it turned into one heck of a sea rescue! Visually gripping and with a story that manages to hit most of the emotional keys. Got it's near overdose of clichés, but it's leveled enough for it not to become too annoying. The warmth of this true story simply tucks one in comfortably for the duration and might leave a tear or two.

A superb rescue operation. Something this film needed as well. My opinion here : http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/2016/05/the-finest-hours-2016.html

66.00

Ouch, that was one hell of a boring and forgettable movie. It was so milquetoast that I can't even imagine how the hell this got green lit. Hell, I bet you Affleck, Foster, Pine, and Bana--all good actors--don't even remember what this was about.

Fairly entertaining flick based on a daring sea rescue which is done in a decent fashion. The CG is a little off, but water is one of the toughest things to replicate. They chose to try and make a little love story background which is tough to fully buy into but the rest of the movie is done well.

This is well made and I really tried to pay attention but instead my brain kept writing a 50's-set noir/femme fatale thing starring Holiday Grainger, Rachel Brosnahan, and Sarah Gadon from 11-22-63. In this imaginary movie, Grainger is the bad girl, Brosnahan's the innocent who gets corrupted, and Gadon's the good girl heroine trying to get Grainger put away. Somebody get to work on making this movie.

Pretty much equal to The Perfect Storm, both with different shortcomings. The fiancé isn’t the best character, and constantly cutting back to her when we’re supposed to be getting invested in the ship scenes, which are mostly good otherwise. Trimming this down by a good twenty minutes certainly would’ve helped, as it stands it isn’t very essential viewing.

Fine production with solid performances, but never manages to really excite the audience. *Okay

fine production but falls flat on many aspects

Poor visual effects, terribly close cam angles and unreal survival. Only good for this movie is Casey Affleck.

Taking nothing away from the heroics of the men that day, why put a pesky love story in the backbone? Also the over-dramatization of the calamities and the resultant equally over-dramatized rescue actions portrayed to compensate the "over-dramatized" calamity needs to stop; just brings insanity into sane things spoiling the experience.

An underdog story that doesn't try to refresh or do anything ambitious in this SINKING subgenre, but this at least has an old-fashioned absorbing look and some charisma from Holliday, Pine and Affleck. It's just too bad that the Disney family-movie-trademark manages to keep it from being truly dramatic or gripping. Craig Gillespie might be as well the new Chris Columbus -- for all the good and the bad that this might actually mean.

This true-life 1952 saga at sea doesn't reinvent the genre or show off with nonstop bells and whistles. But The Finest Hours gets the job done.

Although an outstanding story, I was surprised to find out how much of the story was actually true. It's sad that it all seems too cliché in todays hollywood. A mediocre film.

Every effort to up the emotional or suspenseful ante in The Finest Hours falls flat. The coast guard boat riding a half-pipe is worth maybe a chuckle, and Casey Affleck is sort of an interesting character, but everything else seems completely phoned in. The nearly 2-hour running time leaves plenty of opportunities to develop characters, but the filmmakers decide to fill most moments with tired cliches.

Good film.

The script could have been better for this movie. The characters were not that interesting which made the action less exciting then it should have been. Overall this film is disappointing.

Simple, earnest, optimistic, old-fashioned and a bit too long; good enough to justify its existence.

Disaster Strikes Mayberry!

Casey Affleck was charismatic. Chris Pine was good. Holly Grainger was pretty. A few memorable moments. I really enjoyed the action of the small rescue boat running the bar, cruising up & into monster waves. The tanker split in half, run aground, men jumping for their lives. The action was brief but intense. The journey home was shortchanged a bit. Some uneven pacing. CGI was good but not perfect. Some music was too slow. Not bad for a low budget true story thriller.

not so good

Well rounded from a casting standpoint, typical in nature from a narrative stand point. I would have loved to have seen less formula when it came to the pre storm scenes but alas that is what you get when Disney produces a film where everyone must always be a hero.

Everything looks fake. The wind doesn't even blow which is pretty lousy for a movie about a storm.