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Watch: White Squall 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – A true story about a group of American teenage boys who crew a school sailing ship to gain experience, discipline, or whatever their parents feel they lack. The voyage is a true adventure for them all but it has its downs as well as ups..
Plot: In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the clutches of a white squall storm.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 24,156
	57% | RottenTomatoes
	53/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 286 Popularity: 11.375 | TMDB

Reviews:

It’s hard to create a compelling character story with such badly written characters
What happens when you throw together too many uninteresting characters and try to make something way more dramatic than it needs to be. You get Ridley Scott’s White Squall. This film is based on a true story from 1960 when a group of schoolboys took to the open seas to learn about discipline and becoming a man. The ship is called the Albatross and the captain is the hard boiled Christopher Sheldon, played by Jeff Bridges. The boys learn about what it takes to become a man and the self discipline needed to be an honorable and respected individual. But it is a tragic storm that teaches them some difficult lessons about life and death.

This film is, for the most part, a character driven story. This is a real problem when you could care less about any of the characters. Character with daddy issues. Check. Macho man who can’t read or write. Check. Highly intelligent character that, despite all his book smarts, still has a lot to learn. Check. One dimensional narrator. Check. The list goes on, but my point is that this film has all the necessary stereotypes for your most typical coming of age story. Thus this film permits nothing new or interesting. Another problem could be that there are just too many characters. The film tries to develop all of the boys and they are subsequently underdeveloped. You don’t have enough time or information to develop a connection with any one character and so everything that happens with these boys is incredibly uninteresting. There is also a very flat dynamic between characters. They are all pretty white boys that come from upper class American families making the characters devoid of any kind of diversity.

The biggest issue here is that the film truly believes it possesses everything I just said it didn’t have. It tries so hard to be a gripping drama but its character development completely missed the mark, making all of these “dramatic” scenes silly and moronic. I could care less about one boys success at learning how to read and write from the help of two other boys because his character is obnoxious, underdeveloped, and flat. Yet the film tries so hard to elicit an emotional response here that I want to ignore it even further.

Aesthetically this film is a different story. Ridley Scott is in no way a bad director, it just seems like he had a serious string of duds post Blade Runner. He makes the most out of White Squall with an epic scale ocean scope. The climactic scene of the film is the terrible storm that hits the Albatross and Scott shoots this scene magnificently. He manages to make this the only truly dramatic moment of the film and the scene manages to be as riveting as is possible for such a lackluster film. In a way this makes the film more of a disappointment. If I had cared more about the film before the epic storm scene, this scene would have been more powerful than it already was. It really makes me wish more effort had been put into the first two thirds of the film because the last third, even after the storm scene, is pretty decent. The film also concludes very well, making the film a would be satisfying experience.

White Squall is an overall mediocre cinematic experience. Not nearly enough effort was put into developing the array of characters who were the most important focus of this film. Ridley Scott directs as well as he can for such a poor script, but it doesn’t save White Squall from being a major disappointment.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min)
Budget 38000000
Revenue 10300000
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Adventure, Drama
Director Ridley Scott
Writer Charles Gieg Jr., Felix Sutton, Todd Robinson
Actors Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35-III, Panavision Primo and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,532 m (Sweden), 3,608 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, EXR 500T 5298)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman)