Too much of everything

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Bad acting all round here - amazing what Charlton Heston and Ned Beatty descended to to make a movie. Dumb story and anything but "gripping" as the description says. Unfortunately just another flavor of 70s disaster movies in the same vein of Posiedon Adventure, Towering Inferno and Earthquake. I predicted the end of this movie about 20 minutes in and was right on the money! Don't waste the time unless you really like naval movies that seriously stretch the imagination about how sea rescues really work or if you just have to see Charlton Heston in another mediocre role just to say you've seen them all. Special effects aren't bad given the era.

For a movie with Charlton Heston, it is unusual bad. The camera work is an imposition. Many of the "underwater" scenes (like the falling rocks) are actually made ashore and you can see that way to obvious. Special effects are cheap. The plot is unreliable. Whenever the "DSRV" connected to the submarine and they opened the hatch, there wasn't even one drop of water coming down. The story is unnecessarily stretched to the point it hurts. At least in the last half hour it gets a bit better. The overall acting sways between weak and average. It's the first movie I had to give a bad rating and it was a disappointment.I normally enjoy movies with Charlton Heston. In this one it was really hard to just sit about one and a half hours and watch it till the end. But you can't judge a movie when you haven't seen it all.My suggestion is: skip this one.

Used to watch this one stretched out on the deck on the Mess Decks at #%@$%& feet down and hiding from the Russ..... when it first came out. Not the Russ...., the flick. Pretty good. Recommend it. Almost gave it a 9! Pretty good plot, good set. Almost, almost realistic. But it IS a flick. Don't expect too much realism or too little space. The choice of cast is almost as entertaining as the story itself. Just can't get Charleston to stay ON TOP of the water. Walked through it at Sinai on dry ground. Lays on ocean floor UNDER it on continental shelf. Enough tension to keep one's attention but not so much that it makes a joke of "real life" with "Steely Eyed Killers Of The Deep." Better all around flick than Ice Station Zebra or Red Dawn. And no, the reactor does not glow purple or red! Good plot, good acting, and credible effects makes this one a winner.

This is a great movie for military enthusiasts and disaster buffs both. If you're looking for that, this is a classic.Don't pay attention to reviews about military-based films by anyone who derides the movie as a "waterlogged Naval documentary," which contains two errors in one statement. First, there is no need to capitalize "naval," and second, what kind of snobby theater twit attacks a movie for being too "Naval" when the subject is about...a U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE? Next he'll attack Ghostbusters for being a shill for paranormal investigators.Stupid reviewers aside, this is a good movie.