LeonLouisRicci
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Action, Thriller, and Suspense Movies All Have a Sub-Genre...The "Submarine Movie".
Though it can Fit Easily in Each Category and Even Multiples at the Same Time,
but the "Submarine Movie" is Not Necessarily an Easy Thing to Pull-Off, No Matter the Budget, No Matter the Stars, and No Matter the Director.
The Submarine-Subject is...Out of the Dock...Limited in Scope and Presentation...Cramped Cluttered and Claustrophobic...
Relying More than Most Movies on a Team-Effort where Everyone and Everything Must Contribute Heavily or the Movie May Sink,
if there are Any Holes, because the Close-Containment is Glaring, Spotlighted, and Exposed, with All the Elements Equally Sharing the Frame, and are Easily Noticed and In-Your-Face Throughout.
The Actors, the Sets, the Editing, the Sound, the Camera Movements must Come-Together to Present an Entertainment that is Rife for Failure if Not in Sync.
Here the "Submarine Movie" is Given the Chance to Float On-Top with a Production Crew that is Top-Notch...
Director McTiernan at the Helm, Proved Ultimately Successful with a Filmography that Includes..."Predator" (1987)..."Die Hard" (1988),,,"Last Action Hero" (1993)...and "Die Hard with a Vengeance" (1995).
"The Hunt for Red October" was His 3rd Mega-Hit in a Row before He Stumbled a bit with "Medicine Man" (1992).
Here He Succeeded with the Help of the Aforementioned "Team" with One of the Best Movies in the Sub-Genre.
The Minor Flaw that is Often Pointed Out by its Detractors is the "Premise",
which is Admittedly Far-Fetched and Forced with a "Suspension of Disbelief" Required for the Movie to Deliver the Suspense...Critical for the Movie to Work at All.
That Criticisms is by No Means the Fault of Anyone Working on the Film.
It's the Script that the Story-Writer Delivered and the "Team" was Tasked to Pull-it-Off.
There are a Number of 'Jack Ryan" Films and Series Out There, with a Young Alec Baldwin Giving it a Shot and is OK.
In this Movie the Ryan Character is Hardly the Films Reason to be and is Really Not the Center of Attention.
The Center of Attention is "The Cold War" and the Possibility of "Nuclear Warfare" Run Amok...
You are Either On Board with the "Premise" or You are Not...To "Sea" if You Are, it's...
Worth a Watch.
Though it can Fit Easily in Each Category and Even Multiples at the Same Time,
but the "Submarine Movie" is Not Necessarily an Easy Thing to Pull-Off, No Matter the Budget, No Matter the Stars, and No Matter the Director.
The Submarine-Subject is...Out of the Dock...Limited in Scope and Presentation...Cramped Cluttered and Claustrophobic...
Relying More than Most Movies on a Team-Effort where Everyone and Everything Must Contribute Heavily or the Movie May Sink,
if there are Any Holes, because the Close-Containment is Glaring, Spotlighted, and Exposed, with All the Elements Equally Sharing the Frame, and are Easily Noticed and In-Your-Face Throughout.
The Actors, the Sets, the Editing, the Sound, the Camera Movements must Come-Together to Present an Entertainment that is Rife for Failure if Not in Sync.
Here the "Submarine Movie" is Given the Chance to Float On-Top with a Production Crew that is Top-Notch...
Director McTiernan at the Helm, Proved Ultimately Successful with a Filmography that Includes..."Predator" (1987)..."Die Hard" (1988),,,"Last Action Hero" (1993)...and "Die Hard with a Vengeance" (1995).
"The Hunt for Red October" was His 3rd Mega-Hit in a Row before He Stumbled a bit with "Medicine Man" (1992).
Here He Succeeded with the Help of the Aforementioned "Team" with One of the Best Movies in the Sub-Genre.
The Minor Flaw that is Often Pointed Out by its Detractors is the "Premise",
which is Admittedly Far-Fetched and Forced with a "Suspension of Disbelief" Required for the Movie to Deliver the Suspense...Critical for the Movie to Work at All.
That Criticisms is by No Means the Fault of Anyone Working on the Film.
It's the Script that the Story-Writer Delivered and the "Team" was Tasked to Pull-it-Off.
There are a Number of 'Jack Ryan" Films and Series Out There, with a Young Alec Baldwin Giving it a Shot and is OK.
In this Movie the Ryan Character is Hardly the Films Reason to be and is Really Not the Center of Attention.
The Center of Attention is "The Cold War" and the Possibility of "Nuclear Warfare" Run Amok...
You are Either On Board with the "Premise" or You are Not...To "Sea" if You Are, it's...
Worth a Watch.
Ambitious to a Fault, this Tony Scott-Denzel Washington Sci-Fi Thriller with Cyber-Punk Baggage is One Part Thrilling, One Part Densely Confusing, and One Part Phantasmagorical.
It Not Only has the "Regular" Time-Travel-Paradoxes to Deal With, but Brings On-LIne Many More Hyper-Confusing Elements of its Own.
An Audacious Monumental Task of Keeping Things Interesting, Intriguing, Futuristic, an Soluble for an Entertainment to Succeed...
Without Losing Everyone in the Audience in the Weeds, along with some of the Characters Struggling to Understand or Explain Exactly What is Going On and What it's All About.
Frankly, it is a Daunting Task, and for the Most Part it Does Not Work.
Becoming so Intricately Confusing and Befuddling that "Keeping-Up" can be Frustratingly Futile.
Plenty of Eye-Candy, by way of the "Tony Scott" Way...
by way of a Never Still Camera Presenting a Roller-Coaster Ride Amidst a Multiple Layered Plane of Images with Varying Degrees of Clarity.
For those with the Fortitude Founded on a Tolerance Level Fit Only for the Most Fanatical Film-Junkies,
that can Take It, can be a Somewhat Fun Ride, if Only for the Shear Abundance of Adventurous Experimental Techniques On-the-Screen.
Be Prepared to be Shaken and Stirred, Befuddled and Bewildered, and You Might Enjoy this Bizarre Story that Never Quite Solidifies and an Ending that is Wanting for an Extreme "Suspension of Disbelief".
Overall the Movie is So "Out-There" in Cyber-Space, it is...
Worth a Watch.
It Not Only has the "Regular" Time-Travel-Paradoxes to Deal With, but Brings On-LIne Many More Hyper-Confusing Elements of its Own.
An Audacious Monumental Task of Keeping Things Interesting, Intriguing, Futuristic, an Soluble for an Entertainment to Succeed...
Without Losing Everyone in the Audience in the Weeds, along with some of the Characters Struggling to Understand or Explain Exactly What is Going On and What it's All About.
Frankly, it is a Daunting Task, and for the Most Part it Does Not Work.
Becoming so Intricately Confusing and Befuddling that "Keeping-Up" can be Frustratingly Futile.
Plenty of Eye-Candy, by way of the "Tony Scott" Way...
by way of a Never Still Camera Presenting a Roller-Coaster Ride Amidst a Multiple Layered Plane of Images with Varying Degrees of Clarity.
For those with the Fortitude Founded on a Tolerance Level Fit Only for the Most Fanatical Film-Junkies,
that can Take It, can be a Somewhat Fun Ride, if Only for the Shear Abundance of Adventurous Experimental Techniques On-the-Screen.
Be Prepared to be Shaken and Stirred, Befuddled and Bewildered, and You Might Enjoy this Bizarre Story that Never Quite Solidifies and an Ending that is Wanting for an Extreme "Suspension of Disbelief".
Overall the Movie is So "Out-There" in Cyber-Space, it is...
Worth a Watch.
The Latter-Half of Nicolas Roeg's Filmography. A Career that Started On-Fire and Slowly Fizzled. Critics and Fans Did Not Associate or Relate to "Eureka" Fringy-Style and Off-Kilter Tone...Despite Similar Roeg Movies that Created the Buzz for the Cinematographer/Technician Turned Director in the First Place..."Performance" (1970)..."Walkabout" (1971)..."Don't Look Now" (1973)..."The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976)..."Bad Timing" (1980)...
This String of Successful Out of the Box Offerings from Director Roeg is a Remarkable (both Critical and Financial) of Consistency that Hit a Chord. But Starting with "Eureka (1980) His Charm, Suddenly, No Longer Did the Trick and the Remainder of His Output is Considered, with Few Exceptions, Mediocre or just Bad.
"Eureka" became the "Kryptonite" for Roeg and He Never Seemed to Attain the "Magic" Again.
It's More Over-the-Top Disturbing. More Violent, More Decadent, More Outrageous Behavior, More of Everything. It's Still Roeg, but Roeg On Steroids Losing His Mind...
Unrestrained, Far From Grounded in Reality. Shocking Scenes, Including a Voodoo Ritual that Pulls No Punches, Sex, Ultra-Violent, and Disgusting Images.
A Dream Cast,,,Including Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Joe Peci, Jane Laprtaire...
that All Seemed to Capitulate to the Rogue Roeg's Vision, of a Surreal Early 20th Century and the Monied Elite that Literally Lives on Their Own Private Island.
Nicolas Roeg, perhaps Guilty of Over-Reach that Pleased No One, and the Movie is Unsettling and Disturbing to Watch...but it's a Train-Wreck that has that Train-Wreck Allure that is Magnetism of "Rubber-Necking" and a "Guilty Pleasure" Watching the Dark-Side of Humanity that Contains Very Little Light.
Sounds Like a "Cult-Movie' Personified, but it's Not a Cult Movie Yet and is Mostly a Forgotten Misfire that Never Made its Mark, is Virtually Unknown, a Mystery Considering what's On and Behind the Screen. As Joe Pesci says in Oliver Stone's JFK..."It's a mystery wrapped in an Enigma"...By the Way...Pesci Plays, What Else? A Gangster and Nemesis to the Unhinged "Richest Man in the World"...Gene Hackman
The Movie Deserves A Closer Look, just because of All the Talented Folks that Put Together this "Crazy Man's Quilt. A Fascinating, if Bizarre and a Turn-Off for Most Folks. But Nonetheless an Artistic Experiment that is... Worth a Watch.
This String of Successful Out of the Box Offerings from Director Roeg is a Remarkable (both Critical and Financial) of Consistency that Hit a Chord. But Starting with "Eureka (1980) His Charm, Suddenly, No Longer Did the Trick and the Remainder of His Output is Considered, with Few Exceptions, Mediocre or just Bad.
"Eureka" became the "Kryptonite" for Roeg and He Never Seemed to Attain the "Magic" Again.
It's More Over-the-Top Disturbing. More Violent, More Decadent, More Outrageous Behavior, More of Everything. It's Still Roeg, but Roeg On Steroids Losing His Mind...
Unrestrained, Far From Grounded in Reality. Shocking Scenes, Including a Voodoo Ritual that Pulls No Punches, Sex, Ultra-Violent, and Disgusting Images.
A Dream Cast,,,Including Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Joe Peci, Jane Laprtaire...
that All Seemed to Capitulate to the Rogue Roeg's Vision, of a Surreal Early 20th Century and the Monied Elite that Literally Lives on Their Own Private Island.
Nicolas Roeg, perhaps Guilty of Over-Reach that Pleased No One, and the Movie is Unsettling and Disturbing to Watch...but it's a Train-Wreck that has that Train-Wreck Allure that is Magnetism of "Rubber-Necking" and a "Guilty Pleasure" Watching the Dark-Side of Humanity that Contains Very Little Light.
Sounds Like a "Cult-Movie' Personified, but it's Not a Cult Movie Yet and is Mostly a Forgotten Misfire that Never Made its Mark, is Virtually Unknown, a Mystery Considering what's On and Behind the Screen. As Joe Pesci says in Oliver Stone's JFK..."It's a mystery wrapped in an Enigma"...By the Way...Pesci Plays, What Else? A Gangster and Nemesis to the Unhinged "Richest Man in the World"...Gene Hackman
The Movie Deserves A Closer Look, just because of All the Talented Folks that Put Together this "Crazy Man's Quilt. A Fascinating, if Bizarre and a Turn-Off for Most Folks. But Nonetheless an Artistic Experiment that is... Worth a Watch.