After reading the book and absolutely loving it, I had high hopes on this movie. It was a huge letdown.
The book is written based on interviews with almost all crew members, a lot of Red army generals and even Mihail Gorbachew. The interviews were made after the fall of communism and Soviet Union.
What is important when you make a movie that is based on a true story ? How about giving credits to those, who died or risked their careers to save their fellow crew members ? This is a key element, where this movie fails miserably.
In the movie the Red Army is helping and giving medals to the crew. In real life the Red Army did everything to kill those men. The chief propulsion officer and the captain was close to been executed because of that. The Red Army ordered the crew to go back to the sub full of poison - without any protection against the poison. The captain had balls to countermine that order and save his crew. The crew stood in lines when they were taking the captain to be investigated and those men were shouting his name proud of it. The same thing happened 10 years later when the crew met again and the captain arrived.
In the movie the guy who shut down the reactors was ordered to go in. In real life he volunteered. Isn't that a huge difference ? No collision happened in real life. The explosion was due to a leak in a missile hatch. In the movie, the bad and shameful guy is the officer from KGB. In real life the bad guy was the political officer, who escaped the sub with wounded crew members and turned against them all when in a safe place. Where is the political officer in the movie ? Nowhere. The KGB officer was supporting the captain and crew 100% and doing really well. And where was the doctor, who saved the life of the KGB officer by lending his mask to him in the missile room for a short moment ?
The list goes on and on. The breathing equipment in the russian sub were not as modern as in the movie. The sub didn't dive to turn off a fire. The fire wasn't even a problem. Poisonous acid that comes from the mixture of rocket fuel and water was and breathing that turned your lungs to a factory of green foam.
I have seen many movies after reading the book and the movie is usually worse as there are things that are missing or wrong. But this movie was the worst ever as nothing was right.
The book is written based on interviews with almost all crew members, a lot of Red army generals and even Mihail Gorbachew. The interviews were made after the fall of communism and Soviet Union.
What is important when you make a movie that is based on a true story ? How about giving credits to those, who died or risked their careers to save their fellow crew members ? This is a key element, where this movie fails miserably.
In the movie the Red Army is helping and giving medals to the crew. In real life the Red Army did everything to kill those men. The chief propulsion officer and the captain was close to been executed because of that. The Red Army ordered the crew to go back to the sub full of poison - without any protection against the poison. The captain had balls to countermine that order and save his crew. The crew stood in lines when they were taking the captain to be investigated and those men were shouting his name proud of it. The same thing happened 10 years later when the crew met again and the captain arrived.
In the movie the guy who shut down the reactors was ordered to go in. In real life he volunteered. Isn't that a huge difference ? No collision happened in real life. The explosion was due to a leak in a missile hatch. In the movie, the bad and shameful guy is the officer from KGB. In real life the bad guy was the political officer, who escaped the sub with wounded crew members and turned against them all when in a safe place. Where is the political officer in the movie ? Nowhere. The KGB officer was supporting the captain and crew 100% and doing really well. And where was the doctor, who saved the life of the KGB officer by lending his mask to him in the missile room for a short moment ?
The list goes on and on. The breathing equipment in the russian sub were not as modern as in the movie. The sub didn't dive to turn off a fire. The fire wasn't even a problem. Poisonous acid that comes from the mixture of rocket fuel and water was and breathing that turned your lungs to a factory of green foam.
I have seen many movies after reading the book and the movie is usually worse as there are things that are missing or wrong. But this movie was the worst ever as nothing was right.