
Laced with an unsettlingly strong sense of doom, The Perfect Storm is hardly your typical summer blockbuster. The plot's simply one long - but hugely effective - set-piece which contains more action than all the other popcorn-crop put together, while rising above its fellow big-hitters due to some terrifying realism. Indeed, in its depiction of a close group of men vainly challenging nature, this tragic tale is much closer in spirit to Howard Hawks than to John Woo.
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