The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 137m
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
Synopsis:
A Russian/Lithuanian submarine commander uses a brand new silent-running sub to defect to the West.
Review:
A succession of suspenseful underwater sequences and political chicanery on the surface, this is more like Ice Station Zebra than the conventional sub film, but is distinguished above all by the gigantic proportions of the craft involved, the care and attention to detail in the script, particularly as regards SONAR, and the sheer contemporary relevance and immediacy of it all: the action supposedly took place four years previously. Much of the action takes place in the head, and the impression of the impenetrable murk of the oceanic depths is marvellously caught in the excellent miniature work.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 137m
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
Synopsis:
A Russian/Lithuanian submarine commander uses a brand new silent-running sub to defect to the West.
Review:
A succession of suspenseful underwater sequences and political chicanery on the surface, this is more like Ice Station Zebra than the conventional sub film, but is distinguished above all by the gigantic proportions of the craft involved, the care and attention to detail in the script, particularly as regards SONAR, and the sheer contemporary relevance and immediacy of it all: the action supposedly took place four years previously. Much of the action takes place in the head, and the impression of the impenetrable murk of the oceanic depths is marvellously caught in the excellent miniature work.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 137m
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
Synopsis:
A Russian/Lithuanian submarine commander uses a brand new silent-running sub to defect to the West.
Review:
A succession of suspenseful underwater sequences and political chicanery on the surface, this is more like Ice Station Zebra than the conventional sub film, but is distinguished above all by the gigantic proportions of the craft involved, the care and attention to detail in the script, particularly as regards SONAR, and the sheer contemporary relevance and immediacy of it all: the action supposedly took place four years previously. Much of the action takes place in the head, and the impression of the impenetrable murk of the oceanic depths is marvellously caught in the excellent miniature work.