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Absolutely Fantastic

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

During the height of the Cold War, the US nuclear submarine USS Tigerfish, captained by Commander James Farraday, is sent on a secret mission to a location near the North Pole. Their mission, ostensibly, is to rescue survivors from Ice Station Zebra, a British weather research station, but it is quite clear that it is more than that. The presence of the shadowy, enigmatic Mr. Jones, a British civilian who has control over the mission, makes it clear that something larger is afoot. Then the submarine is sabotaged - there is clearly a Russian spy on board.Enthralling, suspenseful Cold War thriller, directed by John Sturges and based on the Alistair MacLean novel. Sturges sets the scene and builds the tension well. Some great scenes involving the operation of the submarine, which will appeal to military buffs. Quite accurate in the military aspect - great detail from Sturges.Can be a bit clumsy at times though. Some plot developments aren't entirely watertight.Interesting ending, though maybe a touch predictable.Still, overall, a good action- and tension-filled ride.

The only other Rock Hudson movie ("Seconds") I can still enjoy. In 1968, every Monday is when friends would get together at school to talk about the cool things they had seen over the weekend at the movies or on TV. There was no other way to do it. This got a lot of attention. Something that has stood out in my memory of it was the way cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp lit the outdoor scenes in the Arctic setting, although at the time I knew nothing of such things. It's a crackin' MacLean 'who's good/who's bad' cold war thriller and it's also a decent submarine movie.

This is a monumental rendering of a rather ordinary adventure by Alistair MacLean involving the usual ingredients of spies, traitors, violence, sabotage, conflicts, political crisis, unbearable suspense, life and death and everything else, but is it not just a little overdone? In the first part of the film, until they finally reach that polar station after the middle of the film, there is very little acting and mainly only technical manoeuvres to get the submarine to its destination, which involves tremendous difficulties, especially with the lack of communications and of course a very thrilling sequence of almost getting stuck under the ice with the prospect of a submarine shipwreck, which isn't a very cheerful prospect for those suffering from claustrophobia on board - this is unavoidable in every submarine film - the claustrophobia is the main element of terror, although here it is not so much in focus.Patrick McGoohan is the ordinary hard line tough guy as an agent with a secret mission, he always is, Ernest Borgnine is the one of the leading actors that gets some opportunity to act, while Rock Hudosn is very bland as a character, almost like a mere figure-head of the journey, while the actor who makes an impression is Alf Kjellin in his brief but efficient appearance in the end. The lack of any woman during all these 2,5 hours adds to the futility and superficiality of the film.Not even Michel Legrand's music can save it. It is impressively majestic and almost bombastic like the whole film, but you see too much of the submarine and the waves and the ice and too little acting. The action in the end is hardly substitute enough for that either.The following Alistair MacLean films, like "Bear Island", "When Eight Bells Toll" and "Puppet on a Chain" are more effcient for being more tense and brief and intensive. Here there is too much circumstance and too little substance.

Not that drifting away from the book matters, but the second part goes too awry in its own conception.The first part also fails to attract due to the more attention into submarine details & and the crew driving it. The dialogs are pretty good and along the line of the book, which was a genius work of literature & espionage. Alistai MacLean will remain one of my favorite writers but his novel seems to be bludgeoned in cold-blood by bad CGI and irritating twists.For crying out loud, referencing the cold war era & Cuban Missile Crisis just does not do justice to the base (i.e. Part 1). Although, the characters were very fine and I loved them playing. With a brilliant cast, Ice Station Zebra is more like a fabricated American-Russian tiff. The music, the direction, the screenplay all are average.BOTTOM LINE: Having read the book, this was a bad experience and with 160-minute running time, how about a NO?Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YESViolence: Strong | Gore: No | Alcohol/Smoking: Mediocre