I Spent Most Of Two Hours Wondering What Had Gone Wrong With This

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2016)

This seemed to have a decent enough cast (Chris Pine and Ben Affleck, for example) and it certainly sounded like it would be an exciting story of a rescue at sea, as members of the US Coast Guard try to rescue the crew of an oil tanker adrift off the coast of Massachussetts during a winter storm. And - for what it's worth (which often isn't much) it has the advantage of being based on a true story (although one expects it to be "disney-fied," since the movie was made by Disney. Still, it seemed to have a lot going for it - and yet I ended up spending most of the movie's runtime wondering what had gone so terribly wrong.
It really wasn't very interesting. It had one of the least engrossing opening I've ever come across. To be honest I dozed off at least three times in the first 30 minutes, which were just interminable. Maybe I'm just not the romantic type, but I really couldn't get myself revved about about the relationship between Bernie and Miriam. And, once we got to the actual rescue, it really didn't get much better. The special effects were OK, but somehow there was an aura of unreality hanging over this. It just didn't seem convincing. And at one point near the end of the movie - which had already gone on much too long - for whatever reason there was a decision made to show the waves crashing over the tanker and the rescue boat - in slow motion! Oy vey! That just made it longer.
I wanted to like this. I really did. And I thought I would. But I didn't. I didn't like it at all. I just wondered what had gone wrong. I got totally lost in that muddle of an opening half hour, and nothing that came afterward appealed to me enough to get me interested again. (1/10)