White Squall

This is, or was, a true story, but invested as it is with relentlessly cliched emotions, it plays like cheap fiction. Read full review

The failures of White Squall are dismaying as well as perplexing. Director Ridley Scott serves up some ravishing images along the way: the stark geometry of the ship's riggings against an azure sky, crew kids scampering along a verdant ridge toward a volcano's silvery crater lake. But the script is a shambles. [06 Feb 1996]

It just doesn't work. Read full review