Movie Review: The Finest Hours
A friend who saw The Finest Hours before I did described it to me as a poor-man's The Perfect Storm ; however, I felt that it was more like Titanic . There are a few different stories going on that all converge near the end, and some of the storm scenes were very intense to watch. Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) is a member of the Coast Guard, and has started dating Miriam (Holliday Grainger). Miriam is a go-getter and asks Bernie if he would like to marry her; technically, he has to ask his commanding officer, Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana), first. Before he gets to do that, however, the Coast Guard receives word that there's an oil tanker in need of help off the coast of Nantucket, and because another oil tanker was having the same problem, and a team was already sent out, Webber is on deck (no pun intended) to assemble a crew to help rescue the men on this oil tanker.