Saturday, 19 September 2015

Greed and that sinking feeling

Black Sea (2014)

Directed by Kevin Macdonald this film stars Jude Law, Konstantin Khanbensky, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn. A joint British-Russian submarine crew heads to find missing Nazi gold on a lost u-boat in the Black Sea.

While the plot for this film runs through a number of the usual clichés for submarine films it is decently made and tense through out. At times the plot hints at but never fully explores the effect of greed on men and I would have liked to have seen this explored a bit more deeply but it is still a decent addition to the story. Most of the special effects are good and the claustrophobic nature of the situation is well captured.


4/5

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