The Perfect Storm |  | Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, William Fichtner
Studio: Creative Design Art Inc.
Category: DVD
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Rating:  435 reviews
Sales Rank: 239392
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 655647201183
EAN: 0655647201183
ASIN: B00005AW0E
Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 2000
Release Date: December 28, 2000
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Setting out for the one last catch that will make up for a lackluster fishing season, Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) pushes his boat the Andrea Gail out to the waters of the Flemish Cap off Nova Scotia for what will be a huge swordfish haul. While his crew is gathering fish, three storm fronts (including a hurricane) collide to create a "perfect storm" of colossal force, and Billy's path back to Gloucester, Massachusetts, takes them right smack into the middle of it. Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of Sebastian Junger's seafaring bestseller is a faithful if by-the-numbers true-story account of a monster storm that rocked New England in 1991, specifically Tyne's commercial fishing boat and its crew. Junger's tale fashioned a compelling if staid narrative out of seemingly disparate events, but this film adaptation tends to flatten out the story into a conventional if absorbing story of man vs. nature, as the crew fights for survival against the awesome waves the storm kicks up. The central part of the film, which cuts between the Andrea Gail's fight to stay afloat and the attempts of the Coast Guard to rescue a yacht in peril, is suspenseful action of the first degree, aided by some awesome computer-generated waves. Still, it's a long way to that action, with an extended first act that consists mainly of stoic men, crying women, and a fair amount of "don't go out into the sea" dialogue--in other words, a compelling story has been shoehorned into standard summer movie fare. It's too bad, as Peterson assembled an excellent cast--including Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, and William Fichtner among them--but seems to opt for only a surface exploration of these characters, though Clooney seems to have a touch of Captain Ahab in him. You may still be won over by the movie, but for a more in-depth portrait, go to Junger's book for the missing details. --Mark Englehart
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 Review April 9, 2009
Jesus E. Rodriguez
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Perfect Storm - Imperfect Blu-Ray disc.. November 23, 2008
E. Pierce (Kennebunk, ME USA)
I enjoyed this movie in the theater and bought this Blu-Ray disc to see it in high definition. Unfortunately, the Audio on the disc box indicates Dolby Digital TrueHD 5.1. Even the Blu-ray disc menu shows TrueHD as an option, but it doesn't work! I use an Onkyo TX-SR605 receiver to playback the Hi-Def audio like TrueHD and dts-HD. The sound is a big improvement from regular Dolby Digital. For some reason, this option doesn't work with this disk. (Wonder if anyone else experienced this problem???)
So, a four star movie gets only 3!
See the movie October 3, 2008
Brennan Gordon (San Francisco, CA, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I felt like this movie did a lot of typical things movies of this sort do: bad things are going to happen to these plucky guys, so let's give you some back story so you sympathize with them. Some of the back story in this movie was pretty cheesy. The movie picks up once the storm rolls in, but the weather guy at the TV station in Boston commenting on the meteorology to bring you along was pretty cheesy, too. Everyone has a pretty good idea how this ends up, but I'll try not to spoil it. There is a pretty good side story with a Coast Guard ship and an Air Force Reserve helicopter. The movie condenses down a couple of stories from the book, and takes some other liberties that have made other viewers skeptical about this plot. Yes, the Air Force helicopter really went out on a rescue in the storm, and it did in-flight refueling, although the helicopter's mission didn't have to do with the Andrea Gail. The rest of the helicopter's story is pretty much portrayed correctly. Usually when I've seen a fair to good movie based on the book, I'll find that the book is definitely worth reading, and that was the case here. As is also usually the case, I'm glad I saw the movie first.
The perfect disappointment August 29, 2008
Peter Tarique ((Brooklyn, NY United States)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been disappointed with this movie. I heard all the commentaries, I saw the commercials on TV, I went to the theater to see what they announce it's an epic movie full of emotions and full of good cinema... and here is what I found: a) Special effects not so perfect as they say. b) A sailor called George Clooney who only needed a stethoscope to be a perfect Ace from "E/R" (1984). Perhaps he thank that by using a strange grimace here and there he would become a perfect sailor...? Almost the whole movie it looks like he's posing for the girls at the other side of the screen. Is it perhaps that he was told to do that...? John Hawkes is a hundred times better as a sailor than him. A lot of people won't like what I'll say, but Clooney is for me an awful actor. While Paul Newman is a good-looking man and also a brilliant actor (try to imagine him (of course, a young Paul) in the role of the captain...), George Clooney is just a good-looking man. c) A child actor who does not convince at all. OK, he's only a child, but this is Hollywood at its best! d) A, let's say, strange story ending. When the film finished I was just waiting for another twenty minutes, so I said to myself, is that really all of it...? Of course, I don't want this to be a spoiler, so I won't say any more details. e) A suggested telepathy phenomenon out of place in my opinion. I won't say where it appears to avoid this commentary from being a spoiler. These are, among others, some of the things I dislike. This movie is nothing to write home about. It's entertaining, but it's mediocre. Perhaps the great mistake about it was the movie itself. In Twister (1996), for example, you see people running away from the wind cone, you see a bright day turning into a dark green sky, there is always something new to catch your eye and keep you interested. In this film we just see the giant waves here and there, and more waves, and more waves. When you see one, you have seen them all. If that's not enough, the actors don't do their best, and the plot is so simple that you wonder if there is really a plot behind the scenes. And now I'll be sincere: I went to the cinema to see special effects, just that, and even so I was disappointed.
 Low Def Disappointment August 26, 2008
Elizabeth J. Schlapp (Allen, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This "HD DVD" is in a low definition format. Every other HD DVD I've seen is actually in a High Definition format. The horizontal resolution of this turkey is 960 pixels or less and the aliasing artifacts are noticeable and annoying in the extreme. Wonder if the Blu-ray version is any better.
The movie itself is quite good.
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