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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 3

  Tony and Denzel together. You love to see it.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 4

  When will we get our next great submarine movie

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★ 5

  Back when I was employed I'd get home late, around 12:30 AM. I'd make some food and, if I didn't have to work the following morning, watch a movie, usually going to sleep sometime around three. Now, my kids wake up around 8:30, which means I have to get up around 7:00, so staying up late is tough. I usually can't make it much past 11:30 PM before falling asleep. This is one reason why I've been watching so many Hong Kong movies over the last couple of years: because they're rarely more than 100 minutes long, I can fit one in between when the wife goes to sleep at 10:00 and I fall asleep at midnight.

  Last night, I started this late, finding it buried on Instant Netflix sometime around 10:45 PM. I watched the whole thing, finishing around 1:00. I never felt the least bit sleepy.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 9

  Somehow this is only the second greatest submarine movie ever made.

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★

  the greatness of an actor is found in that weird way that denzel washington here pronounces 'nuclear holocaust' -- noo-clear HOE-low-CAWST. he doesn't just say the term for total radioactive extinction; he says it his way.

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★★ 1

  Red. Blue. Green. Black.

  One of my favorite films. I could watch it a million times and never get bored. Tony Scott’s trademark 3/4 close-ups are some of the greatest shots in all of cinema.

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★★ 1

  fuck this movie is good

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★

  More a movie about military protocol than one about nuclear war which from a dramatic standpoint is a good thing because otherwise it would be heavily stocked towards Washington as the guy who don't want to launch nukes. That also means that as great as Washington and Hackman are, two of Hollywood's finest stars getting much meatier parts than most 90s blockbusters offered, this is less about how they go after each other as it is about how every character actor reacts to them. Something close to 1/4 of Crimson Tide is composed of tight Dutch angles of sweaty men under heavy artificial lightning as they take stock of its stars latest actions, There's a deep bench of good actors…

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★★½ 4

  i don't know who needs to hear this rn but if some off-the-chain asshole in a red hat gives u an illegal order to start ww3 for the love of all that is kindly please refuse! like, don't turn that key/push that button/pull that trigger! u know which 1! this means u!! tysm!!! <3 <3 <3 signed, me <3 <3 <3

  (and like, if u already did, u know, no judgement or anything, like peace i guess right? in your last moments if u have any u could totally watch this Tony Scott movie from the nineties about thoroughly aggro dudes with guns yelling at each other in close quarters against a background of flashing panels at dutch angles and…

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  Review by David James ★★★★ 27

  "In a nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself."

  Neon-washed sweaty faces, tension you can cut with a knife, claustrophobic encounters in a pressure cooker under the sea: Crimson Tide erupts with pleasures simple yet rare, deliciously tuned to perfection, an electric psychedelic nuclear standoff in a submarine. Razor-edged script, interwoven theme and character and setting, every molecule of fat trimmed with a micron laser. Denzel and Hackman locked in a mental, emotional, and philosophical battle for the ages, with Viggo Mortensen's soul and the fate of the entire world hanging in the balance.

  Tony Scott never lets us forget that core tension, that every action here affects a global life-or-death struggle, something modern superhero movies could learn from,…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 2

  In the grand scheme of things, among the possibility of another war to implode, what's worst? Being hunted and locked among enemy lines or having your own enemy within whats supposed to be your own team. After all, a bomb may kill millions but miscommunication can end the world.

  As I mentioned on my review The Hunt of the Red October, submarines movies, if done by the right hands, can serve as a great exercise on pure tension. The confined setting where everything takes place, leaves almost no room to escape. Also submarines aren't meant to easily dodge missiles like, say, a plane or even a car, which makes the scenes of attack much tense and you can feel the…

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  Review by FreeJanetYellen ★★★★½ 3

  "We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it"

  While a little ridiculous at moments, this movie goes hard as hell. Gene Hackman is an all-time jackass and his struggle with Denzel would be intense even without nuclear repercussions, but with the stakes it's pretty damn thrilling.

  On the periphery of the story is a really deep cast that fills out the movie well, but it's hard to be much more than background music when Gene and Denzel are so electric.

  A submarine is probably my favorite setting for movie tension. No room to breathe, high stakes geopolitics, and lethal consequences. When it's not messed up the baseline is a thrilling couple of hours.

  RIP Tony Scott, the guy knew how to make some wildly entertaining movies