I have an uneasy feeling that "The perfect storm" is trivialising the deaths of the crewmen of the "Andrea Gail" - not necessarily deliberately - but by turning their relationships with each other into the stock Hollywood clichés of male bonding rituals it turns a tragedy into a Hollywood "tragedy".Which is not the same thing at all. The grizzled vet,the punk kid,the deadly enemies that save each other's lives,the skipper ruling by force of personality and leading by example.....fifty years ago it could have been John Wayne and Ricky Nelson.....hang on,fifty years ago it WAS John Wayne and Ricky Nelson... So,to me,"The perfect storm" comes on a bit like a wet Western with the good guys taking on the ultimate bad guy but losing out.Not something Howard Hawks would have approved of. The saloon bar,the cattle boss,the women who wait,Miss Mastrontio playing the saloon girl who wants to be one of the boys - very familiar stuff indeed I'm afraid. Mr Clooney's designer stubble doesn't suit him,I'm pretty sure he'd get more respect if he bothered to shave every morning. The scenes with the yacht in the storm seem totally irrelevant. The seascapes are well - photographed though,so I guess 6 out of 10 is just about right.
Review of The Perfect Storm
