Surprise Hit Of The Summer

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2002)

I must admit I entered this film with low expectations. From what little I knew about it, it reeked of mediocrity and sounded like something that only the over 50 Tom Clancy crowd might enjoy. It actually turned out to be a very good film, not great, but good and thats something considering its mid-july. This film had a heart. You cared about these men. The filmmakers did an excellent job of bringing this relatively unknown piece of history to the big screen. It would've been all too easy for them to have turned this into something else riddled with underwater battles, explosions, etc. but they stuck to their guns and didn't abused their creative license. The whole thing rang true. I saw this with a friend of mine who served in the Soviet Army and he found many of the details to be quite accurate and was even impressed with the American actors Russian accents.