Concept: A French acoustic analyst becomes a key player in a submarine conflict that could unleash nuclear war

• • One of the better examples of the submarine movie genre.
  • Extremely suspenseful, the production, direction, and cinematography are excellent, the story solid from start to finish and well-acted (especially in the supporting roles).
  • You get a real sense of what it’s like to serve in a submarine in the 21st Century.
  • Everybody’s behavior and circumstances were highly plausible, and the movie’s realism made it that much scarier.
  • The sound field wasn’t as aggressive as I thought it would be. It was OK, but submarine movies usually pack a lot more. And for a movie with an emphasis on sound, I was expecting much more.
  • Includes a sex scene that didn’t need to be in this movie, which would have been better without it.
  • I’ll put this movie in my personal list of submarine film favorites, in this order:
    1. Das Boot (Director’s Cut) (Everybody agrees this is #1 for submarine movies.)
    2. Crimson Tide
    3. K-19
    4. The Hunt for Red October
    5. Kursk
    6. The Wolf’s Call
    7. U-571
  • Viewed on an Optoma HD28DSE projector, 92” screen, Netflix on Roku. Looked very good on the projector. BTW, Netflix on Roku tends to skip or jump slightly, at least for me. It’s like a person is walking and then suddenly you see the person slightly ahead, something like that. It happened about 4 times during the movie. I’ve gotten somewhat used to it, but it’s still annoying. (2021 Note: I later bought an Amazon Cube for video streaming and never had this problem again, so it looks like the issue was the Roku I had and not the bandwidth.)
  • Not for kids.

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