An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but the title did sound pretty badass and since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, I had a rather hard time to care about the damned thing after all. I have to admit that some of the action scenes involving the submarines were quite spectacular and I always had a weak spot for the genre but pretty much nothing else really worked in this movie, I’m afraid. Indeed, the beginning scenes were rather murky but when it became clear what the hell was going on, it turned out to be seriously far-fetched. Of course, you might argue that I shouldn’t take such action flicks too seriously but, in this case, they were dealing with an actual geopolitical situation and all the characters were dead serious through the whole thing so a more plausible plot would have better worked in my opinion. Eventually, this movie didn’t focus only on the submarines, as if the makers didn’t trust it to be enough, and they did add not only one but two extra story threads, one involving some standard war room talks with Gary Oldman, Common and Linda Cardellini and another involving some black-ops operation with some unknown and rather uncharismatic actors. Both these threads were terribly generic and tedious, especially the black-ops stuff and it felt as if the makers were not confident enough to be able to deliver a movie about some submarine mission so they added some (unnecessary and rather unwelcome) extra stuff. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have a weak spot for the submarine genre, this movie just didn't work and I don’t think it is really worth a look.