I really don't like this movie.
And the reason I don't like it is because the film makers really played up the whole race thing towards the end. Could they have not just been at odds with the Russians rather than each others' throats?
It seemed really needlessly preachy, as if the film makers were saying "Listen all you military elitists, we know you're mostly white right-leaning paranoid war-mongering jerks, so here's a movie that'll get your dandruff up because the hero's a black guy! So there!"
Me, I liked Denzel Washington being in the film. I could care less if the whole crew were black. But it seemed like I was getting a message shoved down my throat, and that it was a message that I think most well rounded people already have etched in their brain.
But it felt like this movie, for whatever reason, needed to ram home to point. Why, I just don't know.
And that pisses me off. It's as if I'm being fed a message that is wasted on me, and that on top of it, it's fed with a kind of zeal as if I personally, and people like me, needed to hear it.
That really rubs me raw. And that's why I really don't like this movie.
I'm going to make a submarine movie, and it won't have racial or class politics in it. It'll have action, drama, show how a real sub operates, and people will like it.