Highly Overrated But Still Good

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The work of Pen Densham is exceptional. The movie displays directorial talent but this just one of many. Ed Harris is one of America's most talented actors. The movie gets your blood racing and opens unanswered questions that never lose their relevance.The Captain of a vessel is in a sense the leader of a select group and primal issues of tribal coherence are uncovered.

...but enjoyable.A reasonably well put together script makes for a strong watch that is made even stronger by a great cast. Harris and Fichtner put in excellent performances and Duchovny is strong as well.The story itself is engaging and ultimately would have worked well without the whole "true events" thing...in fact definitely works better without it. Not especially accurate historically and honestly could have done without a couple of the blatant plot devices they threw in.Cinematography was decent, as were the limited special effects.Directing was sound.Overall a gem on Netflix and a good way to spend a couple hours.

I was very impressed by this Film. I felt like it grabbed me very early, kept me entertained and on the edge of my seat, and didn't let go until after the credits rolled through. I really liked Ed Harris' performance as the captain. He made me side with him while still giving the character the feel of a shady and dishonorable past. I only had one problem with this film and it is a minor one. The lack of a soviet accent by the characters, all the actors speak in perfect English. The only problem with this is that it makes it harder to identify the characters as soviets. This does not take away for the fact that this is still a very good film, it is just a minor detail I noticed. The end of the movie really brought it home for me, it was an superbly well executed ending to an all around good film. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a good suspense film, people who enjoy war movies and anyone who just wants to watch a good entertaining film.

It's May 1968. Demi (Ed Harris) is a captain of a Soviet missile submarine. He's just back from 76 days at sea and about to retire. He is forced to captain the obsolete B-67 which was actually his first boat. There're a couple of technicians (David Duchovny) from the Special Projects Institute who are testing a prototype equipment called Phantom. Phantom masks the sonar signature of the sub with another signature. It's soon obvious that the technicians are from OZNAZ, a radical section of the KGB. They want to use the Phantom to masquerade as a Chinese sub to start a war between China and the US. Demi and his men have to stop the mad plot.The biggest problem is that the movie tells us the story before it starts. And the 'real' story doesn't stop this from being completely fictionalized. They are better off not leading off with the 'real' story. The action is functional. The acting is good. Ed Harris always brings out the best. It's a functional if not memorable thriller. It doesn't help that all the characters are Soviets. It's harder to empathize without an American character.