Better Late Then Never

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The acting in this movie is really good.

Gosh,I really loved this movie.It is a work of art on many levels.Superb acting)i never felt that they were acting) ,moments of tenderness and fragility while 6 manly men battle their way across the ocean with sailor songs and sailor humor.Aportrait of 6 men each with there own reason for wanting to survive.I wish I could say more about it but i can only keep seeing the greyness and the boats in the mist.Ragged men brought to the brink of madness,brought to edge of despair.But as men of the sea will do,they buck up and rally and row..on and on and on.The drama is in their expressions and dialogue.The protagonist is the sea.The hero is the captain of course..as he refuses to abandon any of his men.There is so much hope..and I realized early on that I didn't care so much if they made it or not..i just felt I was with them for better or worse and that was enough.

The best part of the movie is the end. They left it unresolved. The men kept rowing, we don't know if they made it home. This is how it had to end. No corny endings. I had to fast-forward through parts of this movie. The characters/actors leave a lot to be desired. They did not pull you in to the movie. The screenplay is really weak. The actual shooting of the film is its strong point. Technically speaking. This doesn't mean that the shots were well-timed or added cinematic value though. There failed to be any sort of ebb and flow....(like the ocean's currents) to the movie. It was all just blahhh. The film is characterized by blahhhh acting, and a major lack of anything dynamic. Sure near the end, they start going a bit batty....but anyone can act that out. Sure the one guy had to die to add some sort of drama....but there was really nothing incredibly monumental about this whole production.

I have made the following comment a few times: "This movie did not need to be made". Sweet almighty, that sentiment applies here. OK, I get the whole survivalist struggle. If this were some time in the 1940's, this might be new and innovative. I am watching this in 2014. It is, yet another dismal Canadian film. I am Canadian and I am so tired of our government doling out our tax dollars to make such movies.We have the same old 'man's fight to survive' cliché. Old fishermen (portrayed by terrible, unknown actors) cast away in life boats. Their struggle to battle hunger and madness. Yawn. It's been done, ad nausea. If my fellow Canadian countrymen can not come up with an original idea and some real funding, please stop spending millions in tax payer dollars to make movies that 127 people will see. We have starving children, homeless single Mothers, etc, yet my government keeps dishing out millions to amateur film makers to make poor knock offs of movies that have already been made.I think the few positive reviews I read on here were from cast members, crew, or family members. This is truly an awful movie and waste of film.

Low budget and really slow and unoriginal. There was nothing at all that I learned from this movie.Thirst, hunger, death, vastness of Atlantic ocean?Despair of being lost? Sailors going crazy?Distorted sense of humour, personal issues brought to light?There is at least 10 other movies on the same subject and I cannot recall a single thing that makes this particular movie any different.As for the end, I didn't expect a Hollywood end, but I didn't expect no end at all either.Save these two hours of your life for something else.