Best movie of this year hands down!

Wow! Such a good movie.

So much average

Sadly Over-hyped

Man what a stinker... I was once in your shoes... reading reviews about this movie and wether or not to watch it. I read all the reviews... some good ones and some bad ones. I gambled and went with the good ones. Crap I was wrong. Should have listened to all the bad reviews cause they were right on. It could have been so much better but man it was pretty bad. Listen to the bad reviews please and don't bother with this one. If you want to watch a good sub movie go with u571 or crimson tide... leave this one in the black abyss of stank ass! Peace!!!

Unfortunately you can predict the entire plot before even seeing the movie: - Everything will go wrong. - They will all die one by one in horrible accidents. - For no apparent reason there will be a nutjob who thinks its a good idea to kill everyone else. - There will be some dramatically tortured soul-searching over how greed is risking their lives. - Som huge betrayal. - The hero will sacrifice himself. - And ultimately only two people will survive. (Why must it always be two? I'd suggest that one would be the heroine, but there isn't one. Basically it is like every bad "mercenary" movie ever made, just set in a submarine.

I am a Technical Deep Diving Instructor. This movie is a dismal attempt to recreate a deep sea diving instance with horrible script and a screen play. People involved did not consult experts who could have saved their asses in this plot.Very bad acting and major holes in the plot.Come on guys, at least get your act to gather.Very bad story line. Not well thought of!You need to do better than this.You guys are challenging the intelligence of your audience.Come up with a decent story and people would watch it.There is a reason why your movie only made Worldwide:$1,171,559 (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blacksea.htm).How much did you guys spend making this piece of garbage?

There have been many submarine films in the past, but the genre seemed to have died out, until this one appeared. The two most famous submarine films ever made were DAS BOOT (1981, 293 minutes long in the original uncut version) and ON THE BEACH (1959, see my review). In the latter film, the submarine was incidental to the story but much of the time was spent in it. Of the many wartime submarine dramas of earlier years, I remember UP PERISCOPE (1959, with James Garner), SUBMARINE COMMAND (1951, with William Holden), and others the titles of which I have forgotten. Others include MYSTERY SUBMARINE (1963), SUBMARINE D-1 (1937), John Ford's SUBMARINE PATROL (1938), S.O.S. SUBMARINE (1941), SUBMARINE SEAHAWK (1958), SUBMARINE ALERT (1943), SUBMARINE BASE (1943), SUBMARINE WARFARE (1946), PIRATE SUBMARINE (1951), and so on. (I refrain from listing the many earlier films about World War I submarines, some of which were silent films.) Somebody ought to hold a submarine retrospective film festival one day. Claustrophobes, be warned! All the films could be watched through periscopes. Probably the last high-profile submarine film until now was THE HUNT FOR RED October (1990, with Sean Connery), which made a big splash at the time (pun intended). This new one stars Jude Law, who is excellent, and rather scary, in the lead role as a very rough Scottish character. I learn from IMDb's invaluable trivia that he affected an 'Aberdonian' accent, i.e. one from Aberdeen. It sounded like George Galloway to me, and he is from Dundee, but whatever it was it was entirely convincing, so well done, Jude. The film was directed by a Glasgow lad named Kevin Macdonald, well known for his earlier THE LAST KING OF Scotland (2006) and for STATE OF PLAY (2009, see my review). He certainly has directed a high-intensity film with this one. The story involves a group of treasure-hunters acquiring an old Soviet submarine to search for gold in a sunken Nazi U-boat in the Black Sea, and much of the film was shot inside a real one, the old Soviet submarine moored at Strood in Kent. So there is plenty of authenticity about the film. As for the gold, the film story is that Stalin ordered two tonnes of gold to be sent to Hitler during the Stalin-Hitler Pact, but the submarine carrying it sank in the Black Sea. The gang of desperadoes gathered together by Jude Law for his madcap expedition includes jailbirds, a homicidal psychopath, a boy of 18 with a subnormal IQ, and a shifty representative of a crooked business concern. Half the crew have to be Russians because the sub is Russian and only they can operate it. Jude Law is the commander, with a handy translator standing beside him. The Russians are all colourfully rough, grumbling characters cursing everyone and everything in Russian like disorderly Cossacks looting a town and arguing over who gets to rape which girl. So there is endless tension, conflict, and enough confined atmosphere to drive any claustrophobe crazy with anxiety. The good news is that they find the gold. But there is some bad news. Watch and sweat.