How sad is this?

Crappy film

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This is based on an interesting story that might even be true, and for that reason I'm glad I watched it. In fairness, it is quite good for a made-for-TV movie, but don't get your hopes up too high before you start watching. Unfortunately, I had high expectations, based on someone's comment that it's just as good as Hunt for Red October. It really isn't.I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on how faithful the movie is to that, but I can say that in terms of science, a lot of scenes just don't hold water. If you hear someone shout out a number that cannot possibly be right, best to just smile and ignore it.Others have commented that this is a gripping story, and while it had its moments, I was mostly disappointed. Despite a naturally suspenseful storyline, a combination of budget production and a mediocre script conspire to spoil too many scenes. It might have benefited from more of a subplot, and with the political tensions at the time, you would think something could've showed up in the script.Ultimately, if you are interested in submarine stories, this one will be worth watching, but don't expect much.

Let me not mince words... that's a rather silly thing to mince, anyway, why not mince meat, instead, unless you were a vegetarian, or didn't want to be asked the relatively appropriate question "have you been mincing?"(credit for that joke goes to "'Allo 'Allo")...but I digress. What I wanted to get out of the way up front, as opposed to down below(Seagal, you might wanna see a doctor about that Fire...), is that I did not set out to watch this anticipating a u-boat flick... the title had me thinking it'd be about sharks(not that I'm really that much more into that, really...); my fiancée said it made sense to think that aforementioned sea-creature would somehow be involved, which made me feel better. Anyway, me viewing this and now writing this review is basically me making lemonade. It was an enjoyable enough 90 minutes or so. The plot isn't bad and develops fine. Pacing is satisfactory. There is an OK amount of suspense. I wouldn't advise someone looking for a terribly action-packed picture to choose this. The cast boasts some good names, and the acting, all the way, is at a decent enough standard. Writing is adequate. I can't claim that this had me spellbound, but I never really felt that what was on the screen was downright poor(and again, this is not the type of film I normally go for). It's a cold war piece of overall reasonable quality, so if you dig those, or cannot live without having had everything that features underwater stuff and/or submarines, hey, knock yourself out. I recommend this to anyone found in aforementioned groups. Fans of the people who helped make this may want to give it a torpedo launch, too. 7/10

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!!!

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.