Long, boring and just plain bad, this film proves that Catherine Bigelow is a terrible Director. Harrison Ford got paid 25 million do do a bad Russian accent?!
shareHarrison Ford got 25 million because he's Harrison Ford. Do you think this film would have got anywhere near 69 million without his name on the poster? The answer is no.
shareThe subject matter of the film was a hard sell, Bigelow actually did well with something that was no Hunt for Red October.
Its that man again!!
Boring, eh?
So how would you have made it more exciting... or less boring, without deviating anymore from history than they already did? (The attempted mutiny wasn't real).
I am watching it and wondering why anyone thought this would be a good story to film. So many USN submarine stories both WW2 and Cold War which could have been done. US audience would have been the main market in 2002. I could see them watching a USN story but not a Soviet Navy one. I also love submarine movies but did not see it when it originally premiered because the story was nothing.
shareIt was a reasonably significant event and competently depicted, but I think the studio was delusional in its belief that it would be a financial success. Just too many factors against it from the get-go. Bigelow's direction was a bright spot, though.
My people skills are fine. It's my tolerance of morons that needs work.
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Das Boot and Sink the Bismarck were a German and British production respectively. If you want a Hollywood production involving a Uboat it would be The Enemy Below. Arrgh then there is U571 which I hope we can forget.
Hunt for Red October had both USN and Soviet elements and was a more complex story than the simplistic reactor failure of K-19 which we all knew was coming from the initial scenes.
"The Enemy Below" is one helluva WWII flick and even the 1950s model work still holds up today. It also made a helluva story to base a helluva Star Trek episode on ("Balance of Terror").
My people skills are fine. It's my tolerance of morons that needs work.
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