It's as though whoever wrote this movie had no idea what was actually going to be filmed, or how any kind of vessel worked. I can put up with almost anything except outright stupidity in a movie, so I hated Operation Seawolf.
Let's start with some of the dialogue ... a US Navy captain giving orders such as "come to port 15 degrees, right full rudder" would have had his helmsman strangling him. This happened, not once, not twice but three times ...
And the poignant moment at the end, when his exec reads Kessler's final letter. Kessler's voice does the read back .. only what the voice says bears absolutely no similarity to what is actually written in the letter. One of the other reviewers already mentioned a night attack which started on the surface, then at periscope depth, then back to the surface, so no point belaboring it.
This was just an awful movie, absolutely no redeeming value at all.
Let's start with some of the dialogue ... a US Navy captain giving orders such as "come to port 15 degrees, right full rudder" would have had his helmsman strangling him. This happened, not once, not twice but three times ...
And the poignant moment at the end, when his exec reads Kessler's final letter. Kessler's voice does the read back .. only what the voice says bears absolutely no similarity to what is actually written in the letter. One of the other reviewers already mentioned a night attack which started on the surface, then at periscope depth, then back to the surface, so no point belaboring it.
This was just an awful movie, absolutely no redeeming value at all.