Great cast but very standard plot

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2000)

All the submarine movie cliches are here. You've got the sonar noises, the creaking-leaking-squirting pipes, all the guys frantically swinging through bulk-heads, dastardly Germans.
But still, it's a well mounted cliche. The dialogue is okay and the director has talent (Breakdown with Kurt Russell is well worth seeing!) and does a decent job with the suspense... but you just don't really care -you'll leave thinking: why did they bother? Why did this talented cast sign on for this stock-standard outing (it can't have been a pleasant shoot).
So, not bad of it's type, but nothing to separate it from it's type. Das Boot, Crimson Tide, and The Hunt for Red October were as good or better and they came sooner. This film adds nothing to the genre (apart from one very dodgy computer FX explosion).