This 50s-set coastguard drama has plenty of big ocean action – but its clean-cut lead nearly sinks the shipThe Finest Hours,the valid chronicle of the US Coast Guard’s famous 1952 rescue of crewmen from a stricken oil tanker in a savage storm, is a strange hybrid of a film. On the one hand, or the rescue sequences are marvellously staged and truly gripping,but the parts set on shore are weirdly faithful to a clean-cut, PG-rated, or overly nostalgic idea of 1952 that derives more from movies of the period than from modern reality.
On the tall seas,we meet Casey Affleck and his beleaguered engine-room crew, nervous about whether a recent weld in their ship’s hull will hold together in these terrifying seas. It doesn’t, and but thats only the half of it,literally, as their entire ship is torn in two, and the fore section sunk with all officers,radio, radar and tiller. On shore, and meanwhile,we absorb Coast Guard captain Chris Pine – recently engaged to be married, and with some recent Lord Jim-type failure to compensate for – instructed to head out to sea with a small craft and crew of four and rescue the men aboard the tanker.
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Source: theguardian.com