USS Poséidon

The worse thing about this movie is why can't the people in Hollywood get the US Navy rating structure correct. The CO of the boat had both Silver Oak leafs (which stands for Commander) on his uniform and Shoulder boards with two 1/2" gold stripes and one 1/4" gold stripe (which stands for LCDR). The COB had LT bars on for an officer but he is the Commands Master Chief Petty Officer. There were many other discrepancies like this in the movie. The acting was decent. Overall it was an okay movie.

Clearly, they had no technical advisor on this film. The ONLY thing that is in any way accurate is the battle lantern you see in an occasional shot.

Although I served 24 years, on 4 ships and 1 submarine, I am no expert, but they could have paid me a meager salary to at least make the uniforms right.

There are far too many errors and inaccuracies in this film to list here. Some of the most glaring are the incorrect and out and out wrong mixture of uniform items which do not match rank. It is like they had a grab bag of uniform items and told the cast to go "put something on" in the hope they might get it right. They didn't. The fact that submarines don't move that way is easy to ignore, since only a submariner would know.

Clearly one of the worst Submarine (or even Navy) films ever made. A little (technical) effort can go a long way.

Just terrible. All of it. Actors, set, underwater action scenes, script, screenplay, characterisation.

Little better than one of those low budget made for cable tv mid week housewife tv movies of the 1970s & 1980s.

Just terrible. All of it. Actors, set, underwater action scenes, script, screenplay, characterisation.

Little better than one of those low budget made for cable tv mid week housewife tv movies of the 1970s & 1980s.

Just terrible. All of it. Actors, set, underwater action scenes, script, screenplay, characterisation.

Little better than one of those low budget made for cable tv mid week housewife tv movies of the 1970s & 1980s.

OMG this could have been a GREAT movie, on par with Ice Station Zebra, but all the 'responsible' people accepted a sub-par script. You had major talent, pretty good graphics (come on, will improving 2 minutes of CGI video dramatically change 90 minutes of film) and a GREAT concept, and you let the doldrums of the mid-script bring the whole movie down? You had the makings of a picture, that could put Crimson Tide to shame, but the mid-script transition was WEAK!!! Director/producers, you have responsibility to prevent these shortcomings. You were so close to having 'streamed' a B/C movie from being a real hit. But you missed.

When his XO i(and lover) is killed following a mysterious naval action off the coast of North Korea, "Cdr. Habley" (Adrian Paul) is relieved of command of his hunter-killer submarine. Thing is, his bosses do think that something is amiss in these waters, so engage duplicitous and ambitious "Lt. Cdr. Barker" (Matthew St. Patrick) to entice "Habley" back, despite his golfing leave. Back in the murky waters, they discover that another allied submarine has been sunk with all hands but some manoeuvring onboard sees our captain locked in his cabin and his deputy running a somewhat disgruntled crew into what is increasingly looking like the jaws of disaster. Can "Habley" regain control of his ship and save the lives of his crew from the unknown threat lurking in the seas? It's a sort of "Crimson Tide" (1995) meets "Hunt for Red October" (1990) - I'm sure a few of the shots were borrowed from the latter film - only without any jeopardy or intrigue. The acting and writing are as bad as each other and it's all augmented by mediocre visual effects and a sort of faux-military style of trumpeted score that really adds up to a television movie for consumption at 3am when you've lost the remote. The idea isn't terrible, the execution, however... Avoid, sorry.