It never lives up to the true story, nor really makes it justice. But a good film nonetheless.

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2016)

The finest hours is a good film, but one that could be great. The story is amazing and epic, and it has so much potential, but in the end the film never feels epic or lives up to its potential.
It has a great cast, lead by Chris Pine and Casey Affleck, both giving really great performances alongside Holliday Grainger. The production values are great, the score is great, but the film is really dark, there's many parts of the films where you cant really see anything, and this is made much worse by the 3D, which the film never really makes much use of it.
There's great possibilities for grand action scenes, but they are just good, and there's never really a sense of suspense. The film feels rather straightforward. Its truly old school and you can almost taste the 50s.
It could have been so much more, but it does something so strange that makes something so epic feel rather low key, and it has a few quite emotional scenes for sure, but it never lives up to the true story, nor really makes it justice. But a good film nonetheless, just one that wastes its potential.