The Perfect Storm

Name: The Perfect Storm

Genre: Adventure/Drama/Thriller

Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Wolfgang Petersen (Director)

Synopsis: A boat used for fish catching as their profession named Andrea Gail after having a low and ineffective catch of fishes came to the ports of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Almost all the crew members of Andrea Gail are money broken and desperate need of that. Seeing this, Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) convinces his crew to go on for one more round of fish catching and being broken for money, they all have accepted for the same. This time to catch more fishes the crew moves ahead from their normal grounds but thunderstorms starts forming behind them. The crew of Andrea Gail straight to Flemish Cap and there starts catching more fishes. Soon after catching too much of fish and because of the height of their fishing expedition the ice machine breaks but as they have caught so much of fish the only way the captain seems to see is that head back to shore as quickly as possible. Meanwhile on other side the thunderstorm was becoming worse and worse. After debating with the crew, they all decided to move through the building storm rather than to wait it out.

As they move back to Gloucester port the storm was becoming even worse than before. Captain Linda Greenlaw (Mastrantonio) of Hannah Boden was trying her level best get the message of forming hurricane from thunderstorms to crew of Andrea Gail but she was unsuccessful every time. Soon Andrea Gail antenna broke down and from that point they stop receiving messages. Their at this point whole of the crew was fully confident that they will move ahead from this thunderstorm. Here Captain Linda called this a Mayday and alerting national cost guards and telling them the whole problem. An air National Guard responds to this mayday and sends a helicopter for the rescue but after a lot of rescuing of the other ships they were unable to refuel in the midair for the pursing the rescue any further due to bad weather the helicopter crew due to crashing of it jumps from the helicopter and later on rescued by the coast guard ship.

On other side to bad weather due to thunderstorm, Andrea Gail starts encountering all the problems. Deck was being to crash because of the repeated waves from the ocean, their stabilizer was broken and two of their men were thrown overboard by the waves. A rogue starts beginning to appear. Billy tells one of his crewmen named Bobby (Mark Wahlberg) to ride the wave with full force as they think they might able to do so but the wave stars growing bigger and the boat capsizes. As the boat was going down and rest of the crew being trapped in the boat, Billy decided to remain in the boat too as the captain of the ship but booby manages to move towards the surface of the ocean watching the boat, crew and bobby going down. But Bobby was not wearing any life jacket and as the weather was worse due to the thunderstorm, he didn’t have any chance of surviving this too. At Gloucester all the people were watching news regarding any information regarding their loved ones but there were no survivors of Andrea Gail crew.

Linda was at the memorial for all the people who have lost their lives in this hurricane especially for Andrea Gail crew followed by Christina, Ethel with tear in their eyes and consoling each other where Linda were telling in Billy’s view what swordboat captain is all about and how much he and his crew share for fish cashing.

Review: Really a great movie as a whole. Based on the true events the way movie is directed was really good. Director Wolfgang does shows in this movie not about this true incident but also how the problems is being faced by the boat crew who catching fishes for living. Performance of Clooney was good but performance of the Mark and rest of the crew were decent. Visual effects and sounds to be associated to the movie were great. In the movie it can be seen that the story is being filmed by Wolfgang pretty effectively but he failed to get the best out of the cast of the movie excluding Clooney. Overall a good movie to watch as this movie brings the actual problems the real life fish catchers faces in their life.

Stars given: 3 out of 5.