Just a did of a movie. Bad acting. Bad storyline. Half the time it made no sense the other half was so predictable. Seems like it was written by a highschooler. Take my advice and do not waste your time with "Black Sea"
Wouldn't say horrible. In my book it's "almost bad". But yeah, not really worth watching.
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Plot holes, plot holes, plot holes as big as the Black Sea.
Clichés in great numbers. Stupid parables on greed and justice. Cringeworthy indeed!
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Yes, skipper: A random homeless boy of whom you know nothing drops by, why not take him on a submarine ride that'd require skills and nerves of steel? It's not like it takes many months of training and a seaworthiness test to become a submarine crewmember, right?
(By the way, who the hell would root for that dumb kid anyway?)
The only former military diver in all of Britain is a psycho whose psycho-ness would play a vital part in the plot? Coincidence!
The only former radio dude has an emphysema that would play a vital part in the plot? Coincidence!
Why exactly would a former Royal Navy submarine captain take these three along for the ride? Are we supposed to think that's why he had to leave the Navy: Because he doesn't know jack *beep*
Why would he work with a crew the half of which can't understand the other half?
Why did bankster guy even have to tag along? Only to be the greed-driven and then fear-driven antagonist, or what? And why would the boss of a marine salvaging company, even if a baddie, send some claustrophic white collar guy on a mission like that? Good God.
How come everyone blames the mission's failure on the captain, including the very guy (in earnest) who killed the two guys who were crucial to the mission's success? How come none blames him?
How come the entire mission's *beep* up at last by a ship's cook's unreasonable decision to repair some machine when he shouldn't have a clue what to do?
Mr. Psycho, having murdered comrades for the gold already, loses all interest in the gold over another guy's death and sabotages the mission? Coincidence!
How could he even kill that second guy, who was highly wary and suspicious of him, and being an expert should have smelled the ruse that led to his death?
How come Jude Law's depressive military buddy doesn't warn his best mate before taking his own life? If he wished to die anyway, he could've warned him that the job he's dug out is a fake.
How come the sunk Nazi U-Boat and its valuable cargo hadn't been salvaged way before if the Soviet leaders knew it never reached Germany and was lost in the Black Sea?
Why would the Nazis trapped inside the sunken boat resort to cannibalism? There's no case known of cannibalism among the crewmembers of a lost submarine, simply because you'd suffocate to death way before running out of food!
And did they really suggest in this flick that Hitler wouldn't have attacked the Soviets had the gold he squeezed out of Stalin reached Germany? Did they really suggest the Russians attacked Georgia in 2008 in order to keep Tbilisi from finding the treasure? FFS. Did the screenwriters even bother to check the gold prices in 1941 and 2014 respectively? What may look like much to an unemployed Royal Navy sailor was nothing to Hitler or the Russian leaders back in the day, and today. ~150 million $ in today's currency ain't was no reason to start a war in the 1940s, and it aint is no reason to start a war today.
Jesus Christ on a pushbike. In my opinion, apart from a few phases of suspense there's nothing good to say about 'Black Sea'. The actors didn't perform masterfully either, save the Russian sonar guy. He was about the only guy I rooted for.
I completely disagree. Brilliantly acted and engaging story.
sharedalesmith: I have a theory...movies that have this "what goes up, must come down" thing are never any good. In this case, what goes down, must come up. Which makes it infinitely worse. They are just boring.
shareI've just watched this and thought it was very poor. I gave it a 5 but perhaps that's generous; Jude Law was *fine*, as he always is, but most of the rest of it was poor. Predictable, poorly written, poor acting generally...
I just didn't really care about any of the characters, apart from Jude Law & the young kid.
Plus the fact that translating into Russian was rarely seen as necessary...!!
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I like it, but it is deeply flawed in a lot of ways. For me, it's one of those movies that could have been amazing in the right hands, but isn't the type of screenplay that would ever end up in those hands. Give it to Martin Scorsese or Christopher Nolan or [insert director's director name here] and you're talking "best picture of the year" contention.
shareWell, it's rated 6.4 which to me is right on the edge of interesting/avoid, and as usual when I come to IMDB for research, and to follow along while perusing the "Goofs", I think the audience rating is correct. Its something to watch if nothing else is on. And the rating on Comcast's preview is 2 Stars, I tend to avoid anything below that.
Chicks seem to dig Jude Law here though. Guess, that's the whole attraction.
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"horrible. cringed and rolled my eyes the whole time"
Very likely what your parents did during your birth as well.