End of the World, the result of stupidity?

Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2002)

I felt the first half of this flick should have been under the title, "Ten reasons not to join the submarine corp." Don't worry there isn't a one in a million chance I'd ever do that. But as the tension between Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson grew, the movie became more unpredictable. One reason the movie was unpredictable is Ford's recent bad guy rolls. This might sound like a minor reason to add to the tension, but even though Ford is a bigger star, Neeson's character is better liked than Ford, Neeson is taller, which put the two on equal footing. The reality of a true story? The world just about ended because of a poor quality Soviet submarine. I'd like to think that was the only one, but are "ours," any better? So the movie was rather scary. The movie showed the humanness of the soviet man and in the end Ford makes the comment. "They did it because of comradeship." I also like his reference to God. The movie started slow and grew to a climax. Would I recommend it? Not to everybody. Just those how need some motivation to pray for world peace.