"Clear All Decks!!"

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2019)

Despite the fact that plenty of the world's nuclear warheads remain located on submarines, the submarine film now seems a quaintly old-fashioned genre; an impression reinforced by the presense aboard of a now youthful-looking Harvey Keitel (ironically I remember being struck by how young Keitel looked in 'Mean Streets' when I first saw it in 1979).
This retread reinforces that feeling by being set in 1942, although it contains plenty of gunplay and vertiginously wobbly 21st Century photography. And Americans! (Making the film's 'McGuffin' an Enigma coding machine probably seemed a bright idea until it backfired when the picture opened in Blighty.)