Black Sea
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Year Released: 2014
Rating: 2.5
Recently fired captain Robinson (Jude Law) has a plan to use a Russian submarine to locate a sunken Nazi submarine supposedly filled with a massive amount of gold ... but the crew he selects (half English speakers, half Russian) keep fighting with each other. The dialogue and plot are both wildly inconsistent (the crew seems determined to actively sabotage themselves; Ben Mendelsohn's 'psychopath' is probably the last person you'd want with you on a dangerous mission, no matter how good a diver he is) but it has a fair amount of subtext (like Snowpiercer, there's a bit of Marx in there ... and a little bit about greed, too) and well-directed action sequences (though it might have been tough to make a cramped environment not feel even remotely tense). Heavy testosterone-with-your-popcorn fare, and Law summons his inner Walter Huston (except with a Scottish accent that comes and goes, depending on the moment).
