Friday 6 March 2015

Film Review: Black Sea

Genre:  Adventure, Thriller

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Screen writer: Dennis Kelly

Starring: Jude Law , Jodie Whittaker , Scoot McNairy , Tobias Menzies , Ben Mendelsohn , Grigoriy Dobrygin , David Threlfall , June Smith , Michael Smiley , Paulina Boneva , Karl Davies , Konstantin Khabenskiy , Georg Nikoloff , Daniel Ryan , Branwell Donaghey

Running time: 114 min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: There is discussion of a character being a virgin.

Violence & Gore: We see  the burned bodies of two men, it's brief but pretty gross.
A man kills another man with a wrench by hitting him over the head. He hits him off-screen but we briefly see the man's bloody head wound.
Several people die by drowning. 


Profanity:  F-word throughout, nothing too graphic.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Some men drink beer.
A reference is made to a man  killing himself by overdosing on pills.
A man smokes a cigarette.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: The whole film gets more and more intense as it goes along.
some scene can be upset & frightening.



Story: In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold. But the situation become a fight for survival as thing go from bad to worst.

Likes : Knowing this was going to be a low budget film, im not normal a fan of Jude law film's because they can be normal boring  or slow but this film surprised me in being a pretty good film that has the concept of like das boot, abyss with out the aliens, u-571 without the war concept in a submarine that surprisingly good.
The base's of the film revolves around Jude law characters Captain Robinson who is given a job to search for an old 2nd world war Nazi sub that hold gold bullion in the deep ocean on the black sea with a group of able men. The one thing i can say about this film is if you going to nic pick ya some of the laws of psychic are unbelievable in this film but forgivable in place, the under water scene are brilliantly done to show a very convincing environment being in the deep ocean.
What start out to be a slow film turn into a roller-coaster intense moments as things start to go extremely wrong but not only this this you learn there is a twist in the film which give the film & little bit more intense feeling to he story which really helps this film alot.
It dose have that das boot feeling where as the crew struggle to keep themselves alive as thing start to go wrong as the situation goes from bad to extremely bad along with the k-19 & hunt for the red October feel as the crew start to turn on each other weather this is gold sickness or the fight just to survival not really sure but add an element of intensely.
The acting is pretty good for a believable setting to the concept, dose play homage to the old submarine movies in many way so it not a bad film to watch, if you like these type of film's, although i would be warned that some moment in this film can be very intense & frightening some scene in this film can be upsetting but a worth watching film.

Dislikes : The only problem is the physic in this film some scene show things that are complete impossible to happen which make the film slightly unbelievable but these are nic picking moments as the rest of the film is pretty good.

Overall : This has the old submarine concept of the old movies which is good. very intense & frighting in place's

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 for entertainment / 8 out of 10 for concept.



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