Fisherman’s Friends (2019)

This is nice gentle comedy that plays out pretty much as you’d expect but that’s not to disparage it in any way because it delivers precisely what you’d want it to. The real life personalities on which the story is based will be able to distinguish historical fact from liberties taken for the sake of the narrative of course. The audience knows that happens but that doesn’t take anything away from the charm of the film. Had it played out a little less conventionally and a few of the supporting performances been sharper I’d have rated it a 9. This page has fisherman’s friends 2019, watch online, fisherman’s friends 2019 free download, full movie hd.

There’s some nice humour that stems naturally from the tight knit community friendships when an outsider comes into their lives, and some truly wonderful harmonies in the singing of those shanties. I’m not a folk song enthusiast but there’s no denying the music is resonant and lyrical. Definitely one I’ll add to my collection on Blu-ray because I think it has repeat viewing potential as one of my ‘feel good’ film collection. Filmxy has Fisherman’s Friends (2019) Online Full Movie, Fisherman’s Friends (2019) free download HD Bluray 720p 1080p with English subtitle. Stars: James Purefoy, Meadow Nobrega, David Hayman

By its own admission, ‘Fisherman’s Friends (2019)’ is only ‘based on a true story’ in the loosest of senses, making a point of pointing this out during its credits via an unusually strong disclaimer. Of course, this is absolutely fine – indeed, it’s perhaps better to use real-world events more as inspiration for a piece’s premise than to claim absolute authenticity while delivering something that, in many cases, couldn’t be further from that – but it does make you wonder why many of the issues that typically plague ‘true tales’ appear here, and why the filmmakers didn’t make use of their apparently larger-than-usual dramatic license to ‘fix’ (or reduce the impact of) some of them.

Furthermore, the flick sticks to convention past the point of pure predictability and into the realm of bizarre detriment, as a very late and contrived ‘all is lost’ moment unnaturally and unnecessarily drags its duration way beyond its seemingly perfect finish-line. It’s not as though this totally ruins the thing, but it does feel completely artificial and take the steam out of what was becoming a fairly enjoyable experience. In general, the feature does exactly what you’d expect it to but it does it well enough, for the most part, that you don’t really mind. In its second act, it becomes unexpectedly entertaining as its down-to-earth characters and overall upbeat, ‘feel-good’ nature start to win you over. This is in stark contrast to, as I mentioned, its laboured final act and, even, its rocky start. 

The ending itself does a decent job of bringing everything back together and putting a smile on your face, but it is severely dampened by what’s just preceded it. As a whole, the flick isn’t very deep. The core group isn’t really rendered all that well because only a select few are given any real character – never-mind an actual name in the credits – and, even then, most of their development is pretty basic. Most of them are more than watchable, though, and their often humourous inter-group dynamics are certainly believable. Pretty much the entire thing is an easy watch; it’s never really boring. It’s never exactly exciting or emotionally engaging, though. It also doesn’t really say anything, other than maybe making a broad statement that people are more important than money. The best thing, honestly, is probably the music, provided by the real Fisherman’s Friends. Now, that’s got character.