Watching this crew get to know each other, as Charlie learns about life on the sea-all while finding a connection he didn’t get from college-makes for some of the nicer moments within the film. It’s also just a shame that Finestkind doesn’t prioritize the brother bonding between Charlie and Tom, as that attempts to be the heart and soul of the film, but gets completely lost along the way. Similarly, Ortega is shown to have a darkness that we never really get to delve into as, instead, Finestkind turns her into little more than Charlie’s girlfriend-who just so happens to be an incredibly unconvincing drug dealer. While we get hints of deeper pains, he’s mostly just the sullen, quiet captain who seems to make the worst possible choice at every turn. Foster is maybe one of our generation’s most underrated actors, but there’s nothing here for him to show off his talents. Toby Wallace has a Golden Retriever-like quality to him, but there’s never any true reason to care about his journey-let alone why he wants to leave college to apparently be a bad omen for several ships. While Finestkind does have a strong cast, they’re completely wasted or horribly miscast. RELATED: TIFF 2023: The Movies We're Looking Forward to Most It’s what you do in between that counts,” or Tommy Lee Jones’ meme-worthy delivery of “I’m your fucking daddy.” These moments are presented as profound statements, but really, they’re the closest that Finestkind has to a punchline. Helgeland also packs Finestkind full of lines that are meant to come off as deep, but end up sounding foolish, like the frequently called-back, “You live, you die.
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