White Squall (1996)
Directed by Ridley Scott
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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What critics compared White Squall to
The storm which takes the Surprise's mast and one of its most popular seaman is frightening, one of the best portrayed on film since Ridley Scott's "White Squall."
Peter Weir's war epic "Master and Commander" is the most realistic experience you'll have on the sea since Ridley Scott's "White Squall."
Whatever the truth of Sheldon's behavior aboard the Albatross, it's hidden beneath the dramatic veneer of a story that is more interested in being compared to Peter Weir's movie "Dead Poets Society" than Longfellow's poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus."
For all the talk of existential ennui and economic security among this cast of characters, the motivations of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur ultimately ring clearest: He’s shifting his Hollywood aspirations from the grime-crime of Tony Scott (“Contraband” and “2 Guns”) to the marriage of grandeur and intimacy preferred by Tony’s brother, Ridley, in “White Squall,” “Black Hawk Down” or “Gladiator” (which also boasted “Everest” co-writer William Nicholson in its credits).