Crimson Tide

[Glorious Union]

A movie made in 1995 in America about a nuclear war threat in post-USSR Russia. Has anybody here seen it and is it worth watching?

[ComradeOm]

I thought everybody had seen this film at least twice? Certainly in Ireland its been a staple of TV schedules for at least a decade

Its a decent flick. There nothing special (or remotely Marxist/revolutionary) about it. Granted, its hard for me to be objective since I've seen the film about 20 times but I remember being impressed by the suspenseful and claustrophobic atmosphere on my first viewing. Note though that the "nuclear war threat in post-USSR Russia" is only incidental to the plot - almost the entire affair takes place on the sub itself. Its no Das Boot or Red October but its still much better than K-19 or U-571

Of course it goes without saying that Simpson Tide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson_Tide) was better

[Glorious Union]

No, I have never heard of it before, but Texas is a bit different than Ireland I guess. I have never heard of Red October or Das Boot either, perhaps I will look them up too. In any case, I will be watching Crimson Tide this weekend if time is available.

[brigadista]

it was ok but Das boot is great and I also enjoyed K19 the widowmaker [all submarine movies] K19 being set on a soviet sub...

[Vahanian]

Crimson tide is a good movie but i liked das boot and u-571 more and unfortunately i have never seen k -19:blushing:

[Hegemonicretribution]

It is not politically relevant, but as it has been stated it does suspense and atmosphere reasonably well.

I would be hard pushed to give it more than 6.5 or 7/10 but I am hard to please.

There are better examples, but this is one of the easiest to watch, especially if you are not in the mood for anything too heavy.

[Killfacer]

It was enjoyable, but nothing more than that. A 6/10 is adequate.

[Invader Zim]

I watched it many years ago, I remember it being very mediocre.