If you have seen the original Caine Mutiny you can safely bypass this ragged attempt at a remake. The idea that a Captain in a modern navy could conduct a 36hr search for a refrigerator key to find who ate the last of the strawberries in the mess was a stretch in the original version much less in the present. Keifer Sutherland's performance as Queeg was a pale imitation of that of Humphrey Bogart and the ending was rather forced. Also, the original film scored best, because it actually showed the events that necessitated the trial in the first place. To confine the action to one set, the courtroom, was, in my opinion a mistake because it relied too much on the viewer's imagination of technical situations. If you haven't seen the original, this will probably entertain you, but not if you have.
Review of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
