Not Without Hope

Based on a true story from 2009. It's watchable but some lazy bad writing hurts this one a lot. The acting is pretty good but the story takes some liberties with what actually happened. There is a weird scene where the head of the coast guard makes a speech detailing hypothermia right after getting the call they are missing and before ordering the search. It's very out of place unrealistic and jarring to the flow of the story. There is also some editing issues where scenes change between night and day at odd times making the depiction of days versus the number of hours they were out there make no sense. There is also inconsistencies with the storm, sometimes torrential rain and the next scene barely raining and not storm clouds. Speaking of the storm it is called a tropical
cyclone in a news report and many times radar is shown where a tropical cyclone or a hurricane/tropical storm is depicted. They even talk about the storm making landfall. This takes place in Feb in Florida, there are no tropical storms in the U.S. in Feb. This was a very strong storm pushed through by a cold front called a bomb cyclone but they
do not move like cyclones. It is a straight line front that moves downward. Most of the acting is pretty good and the storm fix look good as well. The only woke I saw was the overrepresentation of females in the Coast Guard. Only about 15 percent is female but they are everywhere here including not 1 but both search pilots. The mixed race couple is accurate to real life so not woke and the race comment at the beginning I initially rolled my eyes at turned out to be a joke between friends so wouldn't really call that woke. Overall watchable if you are interested in the story but probably a one time watch.