Its very rare to see any good submarine movies nowadays. K-19 was good, Red October was a nail biter, and Das Boot was the masterpiece. What is unique about the submarine movies is the cramp space the actors have to run through and imagine that happening during war and trying not to make a peep or else will reveal your position.
Phantom takes the horrible tragic of K-129 and uses one of the possible theory of why the ship sank in the first place. The story goes is a group of rouge KGB agents try to get the US to declare war on China, eliminating both rivals leaving the Soviets the only superpower left. However, predictably the KGB are dispose of but the ship is lost and for you history buff, everybody dies in the end.
If you look past the fictional storyline and look at the visual arts, then the movie is worth a lot. The details of the submarine was great along with the creaking sound of pressure. The acting, wasn't that impressive as it seems at the same time, everybody in American accent, but you know the crew is Russian.
Anyways, the ending is completely fiction and that's where the movie "based on a true event" ends there as we all know that the Soviets lose the entire submarine and it was the Glomar Explorer that would rise parts of it up.
In all a good Saturday flick if you're bore if you have Netflix or if this movie will ever be on the Comcast program. For submarine movie fans though, this is sure a good one to have in the collection, but there will be some days, where you rather just pull out a good submarine movie such as Das Boot or Red October out.
Phantom takes the horrible tragic of K-129 and uses one of the possible theory of why the ship sank in the first place. The story goes is a group of rouge KGB agents try to get the US to declare war on China, eliminating both rivals leaving the Soviets the only superpower left. However, predictably the KGB are dispose of but the ship is lost and for you history buff, everybody dies in the end.
If you look past the fictional storyline and look at the visual arts, then the movie is worth a lot. The details of the submarine was great along with the creaking sound of pressure. The acting, wasn't that impressive as it seems at the same time, everybody in American accent, but you know the crew is Russian.
Anyways, the ending is completely fiction and that's where the movie "based on a true event" ends there as we all know that the Soviets lose the entire submarine and it was the Glomar Explorer that would rise parts of it up.
In all a good Saturday flick if you're bore if you have Netflix or if this movie will ever be on the Comcast program. For submarine movie fans though, this is sure a good one to have in the collection, but there will be some days, where you rather just pull out a good submarine movie such as Das Boot or Red October out.