halycon1 Review of The Finest Hour

The Finest Hour (1991)

I actually got to see this at 10 am on Saturday morning.

[11 April 2006]

this was on the local UPN station here in the Delaware/Philadelphia area. It's not as good as Teague's Navy Seals or the newer tears of the sun. But it does give a pretty good look into actual Seal training, the part were the Chief has the two main characters stand facing each other and slap the other guy across the face when he calls out their name was funny. The love triangle wasn't done well at all but the action was pretty good when you consider it's a Rob Lowe film. Lowe's navy seal mustache is only top by Viggo Mortensens Navy SEAl mustache in GI Jane(both are better then Bill Paxtons in SEALS. The weaponry was pretty accurate for the era with the Seals mostly using MP5 and M4 carbines and what i believer were either Colt 1911 . 45 or 9 mm's for there side arms. It was also interesting to see a movie about seals that actually talked about the dangers of the "bends" and the risks these guys take just by going into the water. One of Lowes best moments was when he was driving the doctor nuts while he was being treated in the decompression chamber.