- Director: Craig Gillespie
- Writers: Scott Silver (screenplay), Paul Tamasy (screenplay)
- Stars: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster
Movie Review:
Inspired by true events and the 2009 2009 book of the same name, The Finest Hours tells of how a small boat of U.S. Coast Guardsmen pulled off the most daring rescue in their service's history. Set in Massachusetts in 1952, the film follows the men aboard the USCG boat 36-500 as they set out to rescue the 30+ man crew trapped aboard the sinking SS Pendleton, an oil tanker bound for Boston that was ripped in half during one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast.
As Coast Guard Captain Bernie Webber, Chris Pine trades in the captain's chair of the Enterprise for the helm of the rescue boat, a woefully undersized vessel for such a large-scale rescue in seas raging with 40-60-foot waves. Casey Affleck plays Ray Sybert, the first assistant engineer and now de facto innovator of the Pendelton crew. Beneath the path of Craig Gillespie, both actors provide extremely understated performances as the conditions their characters encounter outweigh whatever type of showiness they could've fallen into in various hands. Both actors strategy the materials as their characters will need to have their particular vessels: as something to steer and keep maintaining on a straight keel throughout all of the turmoil raging around them.
The helping cast boasts several familiar faces -- including Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Kyle Gallner, Graham MacTavish, John Ortiz, John Magaro, and Abraham Benrubi -- however the story simply doesn't permit them very much dimension. The Pendleton crew contains the man who complains, the affable man who's the center of the group, all thumbnail depictions of this sort. Actually Foster isn't given much of an identity as Bernie's right-hand man, Seaman Richard Livesey, who mostly communicates in squinty glares.
The Finest Hours also chronicles Bernie's courtship of Miriam (Holliday Grainger), a local girl and phone operator who is tasked with some of the movie's more thankless scenes. Sequences of Miriam charging in to confront Bernie's USCG commanding officer (a rather miscast Bana, sporting a distracting, fake Southern accent -- yes, oddly enough in a movie full of attempted Boston accents this was the one that stood out to me as bad) and getting stuck in a snowbank just feel like filler and neither are as cinematic nor as emotional as those of the crews trying to stay alive at sea. Still, Pine and Grainger make for a sweet couple and do have some nice, quiet moments.
While the movie does a good job in capturing a sense of the post-WWII era and of reminding us that people's values and goals were simpler and even more conventional than they may be today, THE BEST POSSIBLE Hours may also be too enamored of their old timey heroes' reserve to ever rouse plenty of emotion to really cause you to feel what it really is they're going through.
The film is surprisingly subdued for a tale about the best USCG rescue ever. Like its salt of the planet earth protagonists who refused to tout their heroism following the fact, THE BEST POSSIBLE Hours can be adamantly low-essential and workmanlike, which can be eventually to its detriment.
The film's heroes might possess viewed their experience as a later date at the office, however the audience must not be left thinking about it that way. What these males did was amazing and courageous, and the film could've used even more verve in showcasing that.
On a technical level, the film's visual results convince you you are really out generally there enduring the cold, pounding waves of the merciless and miserable Atlantic Ocean. JUST LIKE THE Best Storm, the viewer can be remaining humbled by the ferocious power of the ocean. If the Atlantic got a wallet it will be the one which said Bad Muthaf***a. The 3D, however, only darkens what is already a dim-looking picture, which is largely set at night during a winter storm.
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