A powerful woman directing a sub...now this is the kind of thing I can get on board with!
Oh. subMARINE. right.
boy did I get the wrong end of the whip...uh...stick.
Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson are dueling but respectful (sort of) captains of a Russian nuclear sub in the 60s, which has a major meltdown resulting in a possible Hiroshima x 10 level event. The crew bust their ass to solve the problem, but tension between gruff Ford, understanding (but probably also a little too soft) Neeson and group of tense, sweaty, paranoid and irradiated seamen (heh) is careening toward a messy end.
It's got all the claustrophobia of your S-Tier sub movies like Das Boot and Hunt for Red October, plus Harrison Ford giving a minimalist Ruskie accent. Based on a true story, but as is often the case, some liberties were taken with the facts, from a story by Straya's own Louis Nowra!
This is an interesting, but overlong, exploration of the era of cold war tension, where owning nukes was the game, but those owning them don't necessarily have the capability (or ethics) to be worthy of ownership (and really what country is worthy of owning such horrific death dealing tools? none in my book). It's tense at parts, infuriating in regard to the treatment of the naval officers and also pretty depressing. Not such a fun time to be had which reflected in it's poor box office performance on release.
A powerful woman directing a sub...now this is the kind of thing I can get on board with!
Oh. subMARINE. right.
boy did I get the wrong end of the whip...uh...stick.
Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson are dueling but respectful (sort of) captains of a Russian nuclear sub in the 60s, which has a major meltdown resulting in a possible Hiroshima x 10 level event. The crew bust their ass to solve the problem, but tension between gruff Ford, understanding (but probably also a little too soft) Neeson and group of tense, sweaty, paranoid and irradiated seamen (heh) is careening toward a messy end.
It's got all the claustrophobia of your S-Tier sub movies like Das Boot and Hunt for Red October, plus Harrison Ford giving a minimalist Ruskie accent. Based on a true story, but as is often the case, some liberties were taken with the facts, from a story by Straya's own Louis Nowra!
This is an interesting, but overlong, exploration of the era of cold war tension, where owning nukes was the game, but those owning them don't necessarily have the capability (or ethics) to be worthy of ownership (and really what country is worthy of owning such horrific death dealing tools? none in my book). It's tense at parts, infuriating in regard to the treatment of the naval officers and also pretty depressing. Not such a fun time to be had which reflected in it's poor box office performance on release.
