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The Finest Hours

2016 • 1h 57m •
Action Drama History Thriller
MOVIEVIBE Rating
★ 6.6/10
1,799 reviews
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The Finest Hours

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

"32 survivors, room for 12."

Top Billed Cast

Chris Pine
Chris Pine
Bernie Webber
Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck
Ray Sybert
Ben Foster
Ben Foster
Richard Livesey
Eric Bana
Eric Bana
Daniel Cluff
Holliday Grainger
Holliday Grainger
Miriam Webber
John Ortiz
John Ortiz
Wallace Quirey
Kyle Gallner
Kyle Gallner
Andy Fitzgerald
John Magaro
John Magaro
Ervin Maske

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

R Reno Verified TMDB Critic
2016-06-04

> A very much acceptable film that inspired by a real event except long pauses and too much ineffective sentiment.

A disaster drama-thriller based on the true account of the 1952. So much better film than I anticipated. But there are a few things I did not like; like the frequent pauses in the narration where nothing really happens other that space given for the emotional background score to pull the viewers in. In a result, it did not work, definitely not for me. Yeah, in the many important scenes, it froze like it happens in the chess games before anybody move their pawn.

In the crucia...

S StbMDB Verified TMDB Critic
2017-05-15

First and foremost this film reminds me of Hacksaw Ridge, second and no less important it's just as good as the afore mentioned film in the sense that the main character is just as law-bound as the religious lad in Hacksaw going about his day saving people's lives in the middle of a hurricane, ergo in The Finest Hour's case while on sea - with a life-guard boat, just as feature-some as the soldier saving soldiers in the middle of a war without shooting a f#cking gun!

And, supposedly, this happened in real life! #OhLordy that was a good watch....

R r96sk Verified TMDB Critic
2020-11-15

Good. Nothing more than that, but nothing less either.

<em>'The Finest Hours'</em> is a little bit too on the nose in parts, I felt like some of the cast were overacting here and there - especially Casey Affleck (Ray), not that he is bad though. Chris Pine is enjoyable in the lead role. Pacing is iffy, but the effects are excellent - from the ships to the water scenes, impressive! The (true) story, meanwhile, is as hearty as you'd expect.

Worth watching....