Review of The Finest Hours (2016) by Evin G — 05 Oct 2016

The Finest Hours is a thrilling disaster film about the one of the most daring rescue missions in American Coast Guard history. In 1952 two cargo ships were split in half by a deadly storm off the coast of New England, and while the crew of one of the ships struggled to keep afloat a rescue team fought against impossibly odds to get to them.

Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana lead the cast and give fairly decent performances. And the special effects are incredibly good, creating some amazing scenes of the cargo ship's destruction and rescue ship's fight to climb the ocean waves.

But the writing is rather weak, and doesn't really develop the characters very well. Still, The Finest Hours is a fascinating story about the strength of human spirit to persevere and overcome adversity.