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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This action movie is fun to watch and quite entertaining but plot is unrealistic and serves rather propagandist purpose and Hollywood stereotypical perception of Soviets and Russians. I recall that I watched this movie when I was a kid and was not impressed. I did it recently after almost 30 years and found it even more ridiculously unrealistic. There was simply no chance that entire crew of the Russian elite experimental submarine decide to betray their country just to see Montana, or for another ludicrous reason like this. I would probably believe that few crew members could plot something there is no way that it could involve all officers or even half of them. I doubt that it might be anybody from a high rank. Tom Clancy obviously never met any real Soviet submarines of that time if he could write this kind of nonsense. Those kind of people would rather die then do anything even relatively close to what is shown in the movie. IMHO, this movie could employ a bunch of Martians on their space ship instead of Russians with the same success,

Sean Connery stars as Soviet Union submarine captain Marko Ramius in this action film, a story about Ramius captaining his country's newest sub but violating Russian orders, heading for the United States instead. As a result, U.S. officials attempt to track down the sub and discover the captain's true intentions.Though this is an action film, much of the movie's entertainment and intrigue stem from the built-up tension, character development, and suspense - from Alec Baldwin's Jack Ryan character trying to help the U.S. sub communicate with Captain Ramius to the subject of defection and warfare. The film has an all-star cast including Connery, Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Scott Glen, Tim Curry, Stellan Skarsgård, and Fred Thompson. Their spot-on acting demonstrated a good mixture of drama and humor.The plot is well-paced and keeps you entertained from start to finish. It's a good movie that captures the tensions of the Cold War during its time. Grade A

The first Tom Clancy novel to reach the screen was this tightly constructed, marvellously suspenseful exercise in pure nail-biting tension. At this point, its director, John McTiernan, was having a career high, moving from one kick ass movie to another (his previous efforts, of course, being "Predator" and "Die Hard"). McTiernan clearly had a great knowledge of how to keep movie watchers on the edges of their seats. It helps keep the material fascinating and exciting even with a seemingly bloated run time of two and a quarter hours. And thanks to the performances of a top cast that play their roles with conviction, "The Hunt for Red October" always maintains its grip on you. The story does have the potential to be confusing, but McTiernan and company keep it right on track throughout.A veteran Soviet sub commander, Marko Ramius (ever-commanding Sean Connery), is taking a cutting edge, gigantic machine on its maiden voyage. The Red October has an innovative propulsion system that can make it impervious to sonar, so this could be big, big trouble. The problem is, does this renegade officer actually have intentions to start a war with the U.S.? C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin, the first actor to play the role on screen) seems to think otherwise. He's actually met Ramius, and claims that he came to understand him very well. He believes that it's very likely that Ramius and his fellow officers actually plan to defect.Many familiar faces play roles big and small - among them, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Joss Ackland, Jeffrey Jones, Fred Dalton Thompson, Courtney B. Vance, Richard Jordan, Peter Firth, Tim Curry, Stellan Skarsgard, Timothy Carhart, Ronald Guttman, and Tomas Arana (with 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' actress Gates McFadden in a cameo as Ryans' wife). They all lend a great deal of gravitas to the proceedings.But a great part of the effectiveness lies in various technical achievements (aside from some dodgy effects work) and the ability of McTiernan to keep people on their toes. The action is first rate, and the crew impressively handles the challenges of working in confined locations on these submarines. Expert cinematographer and production designer Jan de Bont and Terence Marsh help to make the picture look impressive at all times. And Basil Poledouris' score adds to the tension without ever becoming TOO intrusive.This represents a real high water mark for submarine pictures, not that there weren't already some very good ones in the past (ex. "Run Silent, Run Deep", "The Enemy Below"), and so far has been followed by these Jack Ryan thrillers: "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger" (both with Harrison Ford as Ryan), "The Sum of All Fears" (with Ben Affleck), "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (with Chris Pine), and an upcoming television series (with John Krasinski).Nine out of 10.

Overall entertaining and interesting!But as someone who knows a bit of Russian, it is immediately clear that Connery didn't spend even an hour studying the language for this movie and is just repeating what he was told to say. It's a shame, if he had even tried with pronunciation, the movie would have been that much better. Because now his Russian sounded more like grunts and gibberish than communication