...an appealingly old-school drama that boasts a whole host of engaging, attention-grabbing elements...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2024

It offers a few miniscule sequences at sea that sometimes leave me hooked in my seat, but unfortunately, it is a disaster drama that ends up sinking in the ocean of conventional formulas. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 27, 2023

For all its technical advances, "The Perfect Storm" can’t do what Junger did: make you feel what it’s like to work on the sea and die under it.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 2, 2022

We needn't appeal to the fact that this was all a true story to find it horribly dispiriting: it does a perfectly bad job just as a self-contained story in its own right.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2018

While it's a shame that The Perfect Storm lacks a strong emotional core, you can't deny that its action sequences make for a truly awe-inspiring spectacle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2018

The discrepancy between the sophistication of the special effects and the rudimentary dramaturgy results in a $140 million film that may raise your blood pressure, but leaves the rest of you distinctly unengaged.

| Mar 6, 2018

feels more like a made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie

| Original Score: C- | May 14, 2011

Scary and sad are the main concerns here.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The thrills come in an emotional vacuum--even more problematic considering Petersen spends so much time trying to develop a human center.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2010

An expertly crafted Hollywod entertainment...[constructed] as a series of grippingly fateful 'moments of truth.' [Blu-Ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The storm looks perfect, but the real danger here is the tidal wave of mediocrity and cliches.

| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The story could've told itself in a compelling way without invented drama.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 31, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2004

Once the digital effects commence The Perfect Storm has all the impact of watching a friend play Nintendo.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003