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Title: Life is too short to waste any of it watching this film...
Review: To a former ballisic missile submarine sailor, this movie was a huge dissapointment. With fine talent like Hackman and Washington (not to mention the intriguing quality of Hackman's character) and an initial plot premise loaded with potential, this could have been a top-notch drama along the lines of but much better than Seven Days in May or The Bedford Incident. Instead the writers developed a plot so attenuated in its relationship to reality (no boomer sailor can sit through this film without feeling the urgent need to howl bulls--- with ever increasing frequency as it "progresses") that all you're left with is a very low grade 'B' adolescent shoot 'em up picture. What a shame. If you're at all interested in the dynamics of life aboard a ballistic missile submarine and the "what-if" issues raised by this film that are inherent to that life, I don't know where to tell you to turn, but don't bother looking here.
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