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Post by janntosh on Apr 18, 2021 18:37:11 GMT
Directed by Tony Scott, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. and with a script doctored by Quentin Tarantino about a young officer trying to prevent his commanding officer from launching warheads before receiving full orders to do so leading to chaos and mutiny aboard the sub. The film opened the summer movie season of 1995 which was a pretty good summer that contained Best Picture nominees Braveheart, Apollo 13. and Babe. The super entertaining Die Hard With a Vengeance, and nostalgic favorites like Casper and Batman Forever. The film was well regarded but doesn't seem to be brought up when talking about the best 90s movies. Tony Scott creates constant tension and claustrophobia and seeing our two leads in Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman go at it with each other is just a joy to watch and conflict is presented in a way that we can understand both characters points of view. The film has a fantastic supporting cast of character actors including early roles for Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). Hans Zimmer delivers one of his absolute best scores to the point where people who haven't seen the film might be familiar with it do to its use in many trailers ![]() Tarantino was also brought into to punch up the dialogue including adding several scenes where the characters reference pop culture which doesn't sound out of place. Denzel Washington was an Oscar winner and respected actor at the time but this was his first chance to really lead a "blockbuster" and it probably helped place him as one our top movie stars. If there is a real problem with the film is that they do kind of make Hackman go flat out villain in the end including a scene where he threatens to shoot a poor man if Viggo doesn't authorize the nukes. Still it is something that can easily be overlooked when the rest of the movie is so well done. Crimson Tide is probably Tony Scott's best film and I recommend you see it if you haven't. I have heard from many that this is basically an at the time modern version of a 50s film called Run Silent, Run Deep so I will check that out at some point ![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LTFxyUCnL._AC_.jpg)
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Post by politicidal on Apr 18, 2021 18:42:38 GMT
6.5/10. I liked it but didn't quite love it.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 18, 2021 20:01:06 GMT
8/10 Fine thriller.
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Post by MCDemuth on Apr 18, 2021 21:49:50 GMT
7.5/10 Great Film
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 19, 2021 0:01:50 GMT
Crimson Tide 7/10 Run Silent, Run Deep 8/10
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