good back-story, and good acting

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Jude Law stars with Karl Davies and Daniel Ryan in "Black Sea" from 2014, directed by Kevin MacDonald and written by Dennis Kelly.Robinson (Law), does ocean salvage but is fired by his company. A friend, Kurston (Ryan) tells him about a Nazi sub that went down in the Black Sea that was carrying millions in Russian gold.The two find a backer who will take 40 percent. Robinson wants six Brits and six Russians for his crew. The backer wants Daniels, his banker (Scoot McNairy), to go along too. The end result is a bunch of low-lifes with different ideas about the gold and the trip.The sub is old with lots of problems. That, accompanied with the attitude of crew members makes for big headaches. While trying to salvage a driver from another downed sub, Daniels gives Robinson some devastating news and tells him to abort the operation. However, no matter what happens, Robinson insists that they continue.Suspenseful and claustrophobic film with a biting performance by Jude Law as the determined Robinson. Law has been a smooth leading man, a character actor (Road to Perdition), and now a tough character lead. He is very effective. The rest of the performances are very good, including Karl Davies as a near-eighteen-year-old who has a child on the way. Scoot McNairy, Daniel Ryan, Ben Mendelsohn, and Konstantin Khabenskiy give great support.I think the IMDb score is low. This film made me nervous and held my interest, and I loved the ending. To me those are indications that this film deserved more than 6.4.

The big big holes happened when the two divers found the gold and the drive shaft inside the derelict German submarine. Pulling and removing a drive shaft would have been a pretty big job if they had just had that to do, but they chose to deal with it by not bothering to show how they were supposed to do it and instead giving the impression it was such an easy job, it wasn't worth even showing it - hey, they found it and now they see it, now it's done! And the other big hole was all that gold they found within that submarine weighing two tons! Again, it would have been a pretty big job just moving all that gold to where they would be able to get it through the submarine beside the same place and way they got into the submarine to begin with - beside the pressure lock obviously. And there, they would have had to hand carry bars of gold into the pressure lock, fill it with seawater, carry the bars and then place them onto some cart which appears out of nowhere somewhere outside the submarine onto the seabed floor. It would have taken a whole lot of work, a lot of time, maybe a few days and a lot of trips with all those bars weighing a total of two tons! Where did they get all that oxygen? And then they would have - or rather the eighteen year old kid would have had a lot of work on his hands getting the gold into the salvage submarine, because the other guy was killed when he fell off the edge into a deep canyon. And the kid was not portrayed as much an expert diver to begin with. And where did that winch come from? If any of this was possible, before even attempting what they were planning to do, there would have been a scene where a few of them stand over a table making sketches and calculations about how they were going to even attempt a big job like this. But I suspect the makers of this movie nixed such a scene as that because of the impossibility of such a job to begin with and decided to just leave it up the viewers imagination which is the only way to do such a job as that - in one's imagination. But the movie was entertaining even though it lacked credibility.

I am a Technical Deep Diving Instructor. This movie is a dismal attempt to recreate a deep sea diving instance with horrible script and a screen play. People involved did not consult experts who could have saved their asses in this plot.Very bad acting and major holes in the plot.Come on guys, at least get your act to gather.Very bad story line. Not well thought of!You need to do better than this.You guys are challenging the intelligence of your audience.Come up with a decent story and people would watch it.There is a reason why your movie only made Worldwide:$1,171,559 (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blacksea.htm).How much did you guys spend making this piece of garbage?

Black Sea is a disappointing and tepid thriller not helped because it is too by the numbers and clichéd.Submarine thrillers are hard to do hence why so few succeed. Director Kevin Macdonald has lot his footing in this plodding film.Jude Law (Robinson) plays an experienced submarine captain now made redundant. A friend gets him snared into a scheme with some financial backers to head off to the Black sea in some rickety submarine to search for a sunken treasure of Nazi gold.The crew are of half British and half Russian and they mutually distrust each other. It is not helped that Law's accent moves from being Scots to Russian and South African.However the script does not help because in a film like this there has to be tension, chicanery and people acting like stock film characters who do things almost expected from two dimensional characters. So the characters do stupid things to drive the story along.Law despite his wavering accent does his best to keep this submarine steady, as someone whose desperation for the loot makes you uncertain whether he cares for the safety of his fractious crew. Overall a disappointing film.