Review of The Perfect Storm

"The Perfect Storm" takes viewers to several places they have probably never seen: a deep-sea fishing rig, and a storm-tossed, mountainous sea. The story is of Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) and his crew of down-on-their-luck fishermen on THE ANDREA GAIL, a deep-sea long-liner swordfish boat. The crew sets out again, in hopes of catching a good crop of fish, way out on "The Flemsih Cap" a stretch of water 1300 miles from shore, nearly off the charts. On the way back, they face what is known as The Perfect Storm, a weather phenomenon where a hurricane collides with a gale and is fed by cold Canadian jet streams, to make a catastrophic storm. The crew decides to risk going through to save their huge harvest of swordfish, but also run the risk of losing their lives. This movie is fantastic, except for some flaws, like a poor performance from Murph's son and Bobby's girlfriend, and some glorification that probably didn't happen. But the fantastic plot and setting bring this movie life that nothing could diminish completely.