10 Most Underrated Disaster Movies Of All Time
6. The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm came out in 2000
and was directed by Wolfgang Peterson, based on the book of the same name. It
details the story of the “Andrea Gail” fishing vessel, which was caught, with
heart-breaking results, in the 1991 Perfect Storm in the Atlantic Ocean.
During a routine fishing expedition, Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) and his crew (including Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, William Fichtner and John Hawkes) are trapped in the sudden and impenetrable storm, and embark on a mission to escape the treacherous waters.
All of the actors are on top form, with solid characters who occasionally tug at the heart strings, but the film’s greatest feat are the visual delights it conjures up. The storm is enormous and epic; the waves look black as night and the whole tone of the film is fraught from start to finish, cemented by the darkening sea enclosing on the ship’s crew.
The ending is quite bleak, sure,
but the film is worth watching all the same. A touching portrait of the
real-life victims and their families of an unprecedented and shocking natural
disaster.