If you're going to attempt watching this movie, you're patience will be tested.
It's one of those movies that you feel like you have to go ahead and finish watching it since you already invested so much time into it. But what you keep waiting for, won't do much for the disappointment you've been experiencing all along.
This is a long drawn out movie that was made even more of a slow burner since I watched it LIVE during it's Aug 19th, 2020 TV airing, which meant no skipping those pesky commercials.
The acting was... alright, nothing that's going to win any awards or something, but it was ok. The storyline was fine, it's based on a true story, but that's also where the problem lies. There are some pretty hard to believe decisions made (according to this version of the movie) that those who really had this horrible experience in their lives couldn't have possibly made, at least not quite like this movie suggests. I'll include a single example...
After being shipwrecked, the first time the group even considered getting into the liferaft was 6 hours being adrift stating to each other that it was warmer in the water than up in the liferaft where they'd freeze in the cold air. No one (apparently) considered the injured women's severely cut leg which was a major issue before being shipwrecked or the fact that sharks exist in the ocean and are attracted to blood. (Hey, maybe that's the way it happened back in '82??). But after the necessity of getting into the raft, the air temperature didn't seem to factor into their survival at all, in fact, unless I missed it, it was never brought up again. Imo, this was something overlooked by the writers/producers of the movie, not those telling the story of their survival. Regardless, the reasoning behind decisions made was brought up about temperatures and then not followed through with. The whole movie is a bit like this - flawed.
It's one of those movies that you feel like you have to go ahead and finish watching it since you already invested so much time into it. But what you keep waiting for, won't do much for the disappointment you've been experiencing all along.
This is a long drawn out movie that was made even more of a slow burner since I watched it LIVE during it's Aug 19th, 2020 TV airing, which meant no skipping those pesky commercials.
The acting was... alright, nothing that's going to win any awards or something, but it was ok. The storyline was fine, it's based on a true story, but that's also where the problem lies. There are some pretty hard to believe decisions made (according to this version of the movie) that those who really had this horrible experience in their lives couldn't have possibly made, at least not quite like this movie suggests. I'll include a single example...
After being shipwrecked, the first time the group even considered getting into the liferaft was 6 hours being adrift stating to each other that it was warmer in the water than up in the liferaft where they'd freeze in the cold air. No one (apparently) considered the injured women's severely cut leg which was a major issue before being shipwrecked or the fact that sharks exist in the ocean and are attracted to blood. (Hey, maybe that's the way it happened back in '82??). But after the necessity of getting into the raft, the air temperature didn't seem to factor into their survival at all, in fact, unless I missed it, it was never brought up again. Imo, this was something overlooked by the writers/producers of the movie, not those telling the story of their survival. Regardless, the reasoning behind decisions made was brought up about temperatures and then not followed through with. The whole movie is a bit like this - flawed.