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A Disappointing Continuation

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Playing the captain of the Soviet sub which has an inadvertent collision with an American sub Rutger Hauer does a wonderfully understated job of acting the role. In fact I was pleasantly surprised by all the acting, especially being a TV film. The Soviet sub has a leak of missile fuel which catches fire with toxic fumes. Hauer contains the fire with desperate work by the crew, some of whom die in the effort. The fire threatens the reactor, which start to run out of control and must have manual control rods lowered in the reactor room. By this point they are low on oxygen and have a very small amount for use by the men selected for the job. "Hunt for Red October" while also sub movie is a different kind of movie, more in the tradition of a blockbuster. This movie shows the tension that the men feel, and breath, and is more subtle and realistic in showing how folks under pressure have to contain themselves and their situation to survive. Really a good movie, and yes, let's give Rutger Hauer some more good meaty roles like this one, he has shown the acting chops for it!

lots of flaws blah blah blah blah watch the movie so it was a cheap movie to make. back then HBO was making smart movies not BS main stream movies this one just like others made at that time were made to be watched and not picked apart so what just watch it and enjoy it.This was a different kind of role for Rutger Hauer he is very convincing in his role I liked it it will make you think listen to the sub-plot. lot of things happened in the cold war era. that most people will never know about so their are flaws the story is true and people died and people survived remember that and forget the flaws... there is always a bit of truth in every story

"Hostile Waters" tells of Soviet nuclear sub K219 which sank in 18,000 feet of water 600 miles east of Bermuda in 1986 just prior to the Regan/Gorbachev summit in Iceland. The drama spends 70% of the run on the Soviet sub (Skipper: Hauer), 10% on an American sub (Skipper: Sheen) nearby (with which the Soviet sub allegedly collided), and 20% divided between the Soviet and US situation rooms. The bulk of the film is a bunch of sweaty Submariners grunting as they struggle with wrenches while bemoaning gauges which are red-lining (a bad thing), etc. The suspenseful moments in this dumbed-down flick are dragged waaaaay out in an apparent attempt to squeeze the most out of what little story the film has to work with. An okay watch for action/drama junkies but keep expectations low. "Das Boot" it ain't. (C)

I catched this movie on TV when it had already been started. I did know the story about what happened in 1986 and was intrigued. The beginning is exciting when the boats collide, and there is some decent CGI there. However, as the movie progressed all the American actors like Martin Sheen dissapear. On the Russian ship alone the climax just isn't cinematic enough. All in all a very intresting story too simplisticly told.