Unrealistic to the point of laughable.

Rating: 4/10 (15 January 2020)

This should have been a good film. There was an interesting and action packed tale that could have been told. Alas, it was not to be. It wasn't terrible but it could have been so much better. The romantic storyline with Holliday Grainger should have been a minor detail, not taken up a third of the film. Her character was so annoying and wimpy, you just wanted to give her a shake and tell her to shut up. What really killed it for me, though, was the lack of realism with a lot of the scenes at sea. For the most part, the coastguard boat was sailing along as if it was in smooth seas. Despite this being a massive storm, they hardly moved. As a sailor, this drove me nuts - even in moderate seas, boats move back and forward. And in storms, they move a lot. The crew of both vessels involved would have been getting thrown around not calmly staying upright. It wouldn't have been hard for the filmmakers to have made this a bit more believable. Save this one for a rainy day, when you've nothing better to watch.