This Boat Has Life

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2017)

Nicely done presentation of a rescue scenario at sea with its own characteristics namely different personalities, problems and for a nice touch, we are at war too! The stars of this movie bring it to life thus Life in the boat or Lifeboat! Hitchcock kept it interesting with his directing and what unfolds is believable and entertaining. There are plots known and unknown at work which keeps us involved as it unravels slowly allowing the viewer to take it in quite nicely. Then, things happen and we watch how this group rises or falls to the occasion. There is nothing like a good ole fashioned emergency to bring out what is hidden as well as the best in all of us. This is that movie. You will find each character interesting and how they all share the common as well as what they have going on personally. What makes this all work is that it is not real as in filmed on location and in the actually sea but only duplicated as what could have happened thus this particular story minus the sunburn, seas sickness, lack of food and water, etc a la Hollywood. I have read many accounts of people lost at sea and those stories are unforgiving and involve life and death. Still, there is a touch of that at work here too. I was pleased when I found out that John Steinbeck of the Grapes of Wrath fame did the writing. He knows how to make and capture a personal story using everyday people. In Hitchcock's hands, it is put to the testing and it holds up quite well. At some point, ask yourself what made them all relax after a while? Sharing close quarters for lengths of time does that with people. Remember also that everyone has to go potty too and that makes us all human right off. Good snack movie here with a decent ending too. Enjoy