Meticulously crafted and tenderly executed, Baltasar Kormákur’s (Everest,  2 Guns) Adrift is a journey not to be best on the largest screen you can find at your nearby cinemas. Lost at sea is one of my favorite genres of movies. This movie stands on its own against such classics as The Perfect Storm, Dead Calm,  Life of Pi, Lifeboat, All is Lost, The Deep, and even academy award-nominated pictures like Cast Away and Life of Pi in the sense that it is based on a true story and that the true story is real in the sense that we know exactly what happened because, spoiler, the survivor lives to tell the story. While such stories as Titanic, The Perfect Storm, Open Water, and The Heart of the Sea are based on true stories and are fantastic movies, there is so much fiction added to these stories because we don’t have full accounts of what actually did happen because there either wasn’t someone left at the end to give the proper details or there were so many fictional elements added to the anecdotes that the plot from which the movie was based on has been entirely changed. That is not the case with Adrift, and that is what makes this movie so great. It isn’t “based on” or “inspired by” a true story. It IS a true story, and, ultimately, that’s what we want in the end.
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