GamerTab That was an excellent one.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Robert J. Maxwell At the time that Ronald Reagan and Sergei Gorbachev schedule a meeting in Iceland about reducing nuclear weapons, two submarines are playing tag under the Atlantic Ocean. The American submarine, commanded by Martin Sheen wearing dark hair and an impeccably groomed gray beard, accidentally scrapes the Soviet submarine, commanded by Rutger Hauer, whose movie this is.No damage to the American boat but the incident has sheared off part of the top deck of the Soviet boat. Fuel floods one of the compartments, the missile bay and it's put out only by the exercise of Herculean strength and bravery.But, like the corpse coming back to life in a horror movie, something else flares up. The nuclear power plant goes ape. It has to be shut down manually by men wearing Hazmat suits and putting all their strength into returning the rods to the radioactive materials before they pass out. The rods creak downward, inch by agonizing inch. Success in sinking the rods and shutting down the radiation is finally achieved, with loss of life, but the boat is now so dangerous it must be abandoned and it sinks thousands of feet before coming to rest on the ocean bottom, still carrying sixteen missiles, several corpses, and a radioactive power plant.Hauer handled the emergency as well as any experienced captain could but he's still dismissed from the Soviet Navy. He returns to his wife, Sanja Spengler, who looks so yummy that he shouldn't be suicidal about the way things turned out.It's hard to tell how much of it is true because nobody with any weight seems prepared to talk about it but it has the ring of at least semi-truth. There is a commissar aboard, representing Moscow, and a member of KGB. These political types are usually treated badly in American movies. They're often ugly and they sneer a lot. No wonder Sean Connery broke his commissar's neck in "The Hunt for Red October." In this movie the commissar begins as a superior snotnose. Hauer always greets him with "How's Moscow" and then movies quickly on. But here the commissar, though no sailor, plays a pivotal part in the attempts to save the ship and his last communication with Hauer is a friendly, sympathetic smile.It drags a bit here and there, and some of the technical details escape me. Needles wriggle on strange dials. Incomprehensible orders are issued. But it's not at all a bad movie. The Russians are rational, though they have their hawks. The Americans are rational too, although they have their hawks who want to start the damme war and get on with it.The production values are low and he CGIs primitive but it's a much more balanced story than either "The Hunt For Red October" or "The Widowmaker." If you watch it you'll probably be caught up in this tense story.

Emma Oh my god, this movie was amazing!!! I'm a very big fan of Dominic Monaghan, but since I live in Sweden, I'm not able to see that much of him, so I was very, very, very happy when I looked through the newspaper and saw that they were going to show Hostile Waters!!! Then, I was a little disappointed that he only had like one line in the whole movie! But, it was still a great movie! I almost started to cry... Seriously!!! Well, it was a great movie, and I'm glad I taped it, 'cause I'm going to see it again!!!

akuma109 Not a bad film. The acting depicted the heroism and desperation that, as far as anyone (not in the submarine or military intelligence community) can know, really occurred. Based upon the truth (or at least what is generally known). After the 'Kursk' incident, this film seems a lot better and probably more realistic than other submarine movies... with the exception of 'Das Boot'. May not be 'edge of your seat' excitement, but certainly more real than "U-571".

Gunter Sharp The movie portrays a tightly scripted drama when a disaster occurs on a Soviet nuclear sub. It places the viewer in the narrow confines of the sub and reminds us of the dangers constantly faced by the crew. Potential weaknesses of nuclear fail-safe systems also become apparent.