Russians! All played by Americans with funny accents! Filmed on a REAL submarine! What's not to like? Granted, the plot of this film is so complicated that it takes 5 sheets of paper to print it out from this site, even when you reduce the print size. True, there is a new story coming out nearly every week about how the U.S. and Russia nearly blew each other to smithereens during the so-called "Cold War" in the 1900s. The idea that Russia beat the U.S. to "stealth" technology decades before the B1 bomber series, and that rogue elements of Russia's intelligence service were able to hijack such a sub with a plan to make it sound and sail like a Red Chinese warship just before destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus prompting America and China to wipe each other out with nukes, is a pretty far-fetched yarn. How did Russia plan to sidestep all the fall-out (which would have reduced the Chernobyl Meltdown which happened a few years later to a molehill, though Scandanavians were pretty upset at the time over being covered by Soviet radiation)? Still, do NOT rent this movie unless you have a "fallout shelter" (a quaint remnant of the 1900s where Junior keeps his sex slaves in TV's UNDER THE DOME) to watch it in.
Review of Phantom
