One of the worst I read lots of these comments and am stunned at the gullibility of the general public. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen with the audience being asked to accept impossible situations, cliché characters, an appalling musak score and 2 hours of boredom in a bathtub. There is no way, for example, that people on a boat could walk around on deck in some of the effects-waves we were asked to watch, and no way a helicopter could stay aloft in winds we were asked to accept. God knows what George Clooney was doing in this dog - maybe had a contractual obligation or somesuch. This movie is an example of the power of mass marketing and is without value except at the box office. The only redeeming feature is that it didn't run to 3 hrs. I watched, fascinated by it's dreadful dreariness right to the clichéd end, thinking of what the $120M cost MIGHT have produced.