This is a far superior film to something like The Perfect Storm… yes Craig Gillespie has somehow managed to create a classy disaster flick that demands a viewing by serious film lovers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2025

Subdued from the Ahab archetypes of most maritime characters, Pine and Affleck are not completely bland, but neither offers much inspiration or entertaining gravity, two aspects woefully missing from the film as a whole.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2024

Its all very familiar and unremarkable filmmaking for an otherwise remarkable story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2022

It's not going to surprise you with any plot twists, but The Finest Hours is by far one of the most exciting disaster movie so far this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2021

Bernie and Sybert both display true humility.

| Aug 27, 2021

Has its heart in the right place but is sunk by earnestness and mannered presentation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Every time a suspenseful scenario is orchestrated, the editing and dialogue and actions manage to stymie the anticipation; there's no tension or believable peril.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 4, 2020

This Chris Pine performance is a Chris Pine you haven't really seen before.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

As exciting as it can be, the rest of the movie, chiefly the human side of things, falls flat on its face and offers little of interest.

| Original Score: C | Jul 3, 2020

So yeah, it's a bit silly, but earnestly so, and if you're willing to let the heart-on-its-sleeve tone wash over you, you might find yourself as charmed as I was.

| Apr 6, 2020

In the long history of movies about military heroes, very few, if any, concern the Coast Guard. So it's kind of a shame that the film adaptation of the service's bravest exploit is so dreadfully boring and uninspired.

| Jan 13, 2020

As entertaining as Disney, the cast and crew attempt to make it, Bernie and the boys deserve more.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 17, 2019

The credibility that the high seas scenes show helps to maintain tension. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 7, 2019

Candy-coated feel-goodery dressed up as historic disaster porn.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Jul 20, 2019

Not great, not terrible. Right in the middle.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 16, 2019

Whilst playing things rather safe and without doing anything outside of what we expect from his film, Gillespie crafts an exhilarating ride thanks largely to huge scope for spectacle and a solid cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

"The Finest Hours" is meant to be inspiring, but it's ultimately an average film that doesn't strike the right balance of thrilling or daring that it's surely meant to.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 5, 2019

It's an incredibly bloodless affair, and the ending is so protracted and full of pointless, long stares that I was absolutely itching for the thing to be over.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 22, 2019

Modern techniques make the storm and ocean merciless and imposing, but the film's stars are its story and the actors portraying these real-life men and women.

| Feb 5, 2019

Based on a heroic true story, The Finest Hours is realistically terrifying (thanks to impressive special effects and score), but also a miraculous feat that warms the heart.

| Jan 24, 2019