Product Details

• Actors: Rob Lowe, Gale Hansen, Tracy Griffith, Eb Lottimer, Baruch Dror
• Directors: Shimon Dotan
• Writers: Shimon Dotan, Stuart Schoffman
• Producers: Ami Artzi, Menahem Golan, Zvi Spielmann
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: August 31, 1994
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302597706
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,816 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Two of the Navy's finest S.E.A.L commandos, Hammer and Meszoly, compete to be the best of the best, professionally and personally. When Hammer wins the hand of the girl they both love, the team's friendship comes to a sudden end. It takes nothing less than an act of war to reunite them, for when an enemy compound is discovered to house deadly biochemical missles, Hammer and Meszoly are ordered to infiltrate and destroy the weapons. They're on a suicide mission but there is no alternative...if they fail, it will herald a war no side can win. A time of heroism and sacrifice, of friendship and honor, it will be the Navy S.E.A.L.S.' greatest victory. It will be THE FINEST HOUR.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real SEAL / Military Detail, August 19, 2000

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Ben Zona (Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Finest Hour [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was in this film (as an extra). We had 3 SEALs on hand to make sure SEAL details stayed accurate. In addition, most of the extras portraying soldiers were either veterans of the US Army, the Marines or the Israeli Army. (Most of the action scenes were shot in Israel.) Rob Lowe will never know what it is to be a real soldier, and as an actor just learned to "talk the talk", but many of the others you see in uniform have also "walked the walk". This can be seen in the small details.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where is the DVD version of this movie?, January 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Finest Hour [VHS] (VHS Tape)

One word to describe this movie, AWSOME! I believe one of the best military movies, this side of Saving Private Ryan that was filmed. We need to contact the film makers to produce it in DVD Widescreen format really soon. I remember watching it 7 years ago on cable, and I thought it was before it's time. 5 stars all the way!.....

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than any other SEAL film. Don't miss this one., May 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Finest Hour [VHS] (VHS Tape)

TFH is the SEAL film you've been waiting to see. The action sequences are spankin', exciting, and full of realistic-looking tactical detail. In comparison, G.I. Jane and Charlie Sheen's Navy SEALs were high-budget, big-hype Hollywood disappointments -- all promise, weak game.

Shimon Dotan is the only director to have successfully translated on film the general public's fantasy of Navy SEALs in training and in action.

Admittedly, the development of the lead characters' personal lives is slow, flat and dull by comparison. But the action scenes are so darn satisfying, I don't care.

I just wish they made many more films like this one.