Movie Review: "The Finest Hours"

This movie, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck, is a recounting of the greatest small boat rescue in US Coast Guard history. In 1952, a massive winter storm strikes the Northeast, ripping an oil tanker in two. Thirty men are trapped in the stern of the tanker off the coast of Massachusetts. Casey Affleck plays an assistant engineer who takes charge of keeping the remnant of the tanker afloat. Chris Pine is a young coast guard warrant officer who is tasked with the seemingly impossible task of braving the storm with three man to rescue the tanker’s surviving crew. The film is a well scripted and developed story of two ordinary men (Pine and Affleck) accomplishing extraordinary feats with determination, self-sacrifice and bravery. The special effects are superb. The movie is suspenseful without being drawn out.