A movie based on a tale as old as time (excuse the Beauty and the Beast reference). This movie actually isn't a film about Moby Dick. It's the creation if the story. How the fictional novel was created; drawing to light that this best selling work if fiction is in fact based in a true story.
Present is the tale of a great white whale, ravaging a whaling ship in the sea. Not present is Captain Ahab and Queequeg, in the story narrated by Ishmael. More so the battle between Owen Chase the first mate of The Essex, and her Captain George Pollard. Story recounted by the only remaining, surviving member of her crew, Tom Knickerson, to the novellest looking recreate himself to the world with a new work which we all now know as Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
I feel I may have already given so much away, and I apologize. But there is more to the movie than I have shared. And the opening would have let all that away in much less detail, especially to those who don't really know the story of Moby Dick.
Even though it was an amazing film, and the terrifying monster that is the great white whale was finally brought to life, I will admit to expecting much more from this movie.
The graphics and whale hunting scenes were astounding, as was the destruction of The Essex. But if you're not in for the long haul, the movie can be a little slow.
Then again, so is The Mutiny on The Bounty.
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