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gary-anderson683
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Screen One: Hostile Waters (1997)
Episode 2, Season 9
Lowering the rods
12 April 2008 - 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
Can anyone confirm if it's really so difficult to lower the rods in the reactor as shown in this film? I'd have thought that for a mechanism so important as this, there'd be a "release" button which dropped them. Or at least the pivot would be easily turned.
Apart from that, as other posters have written, this is a fun Saturday night movie with some basis in fact. There are plenty worse. Why employ great actors like von Sydow but barely use him? There are clear influences from Das Boot and so on, but for the budget they have done a pretty good job. An experienced sailor commends it for its accurate portrayal of men under pressure, I note.
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