| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...tells a remarkable story of survival and grace under pressure, both literally and figuratively." more... |
B+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...casting stars of roughly equal weight helps it to work." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...absorbing and honestly scary..." more... |
B |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"...an adventure that respects its audience, and does a fine old genre proud." more... |
A- |
| E! Online |
"...keeps itself above sea level." more... |
C+ |
filmcritic.com
Margaret Berry |
"My only real complaint is that the movie is too long..." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...earns the right to be favorably compared to Das Boot, arguably the greatest of all submarine movies." more... |
A- |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"...the potential for something better is definitely there." more... |
C+ |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman |
"Cliché-ridden but moving true-life submarine drama." more... |
B- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...a tense, swift drama of mechanical catastrophe and dueling egos." more... |
B |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...an engaging and exciting narrative of Man confronting the Demons of his own fear and paranoia." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...it is rare and stirring to see a Hollywood epic told from a Russian perspective." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...the movie gradually works its way, with quiet intelligence and apparent conviction, until there's no turning from it." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"The movie is a grueling, unsettling experience..." more... |
B |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
"...if the film's first half is thoroughly tiresome, the second half is anything but..." more... |
B- |
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