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Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes, et al. Released to DVD on November 14, 2000. If there was ever a movie that should be viewed on a really big TV screen, The Perfect Storm is it. With no plot to speak of outside the plight of a fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, and her crew (George Clooney, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes and Mark Wahlberg) sailing through 75 foot waves, director Wolfgang Peterson has created was amounts to an almost IMAX-like visual experience in his film. The selling points of this movie are the phenomenal special effects and the usage of the huge water tanks in which the majority of The Perfect Storm was filmed. Everything else about this film is pathetic. The writing, dialogue, acting and pacing of this movie were well below Peterson's normal films, with the focus of Bill Wittliff's screenplay strangely and shockingly off-target as roughly half of this movie is about the biggest, baddest storm ever and the other half is about the personal lives and familial relationships of the Andrea Gail's six crew members who, to be honest with you, nobody cares about in the context of the movie. The last hour of this film is some of the most exciting, titillating and enthralling hours of cinema ever. The first hour is exactly the opposite.
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