
After a decade of hard work at a marine salvage company, the recently redundant submarine captain, Robinson, decides to risk everything in search of a fabled underwater treasure: a sunken Nazi U-boat laden with gold ingots of inestimable value. Bent on unearthing the unclaimed prize under the nose of the Russians and their hostile naval fleet, Robinson assembles a hand-picked mixed crew of antagonistic experts to comb the vast seabed of the cold Black Sea in a rusty Soviet su... (Full plot summary below)
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After a decade of hard work at a marine salvage company, the recently redundant submarine captain, Robinson, decides to risk everything in search of a fabled underwater treasure: a sunken Nazi U-boat laden with gold ingots of inestimable value. Bent on unearthing the unclaimed prize under the nose of the Russians and their hostile naval fleet, Robinson assembles a hand-picked mixed crew of antagonistic experts to comb the vast seabed of the cold Black Sea in a rusty Soviet submarine. However, as greed gets the best of the already divided team, the promise of an equal share rapidly starts to fade away. Can Robinson's men resurface in one piece, and, above all, rich?
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| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasFans of previous submarine thrillers should appreciate the tense nail-biter that Macdonald has created. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternA conspicuous comedown from the best of Mr. Macdonald’s films — “The Last King of Scotland” and “Touching the Void.” Still, the craftsmanship is impressive, Ben Mendelsohn’s Fraser provides plenty of psychopathic villainy, and Mr. Law invests his character with more passion than the writing deserves. |
| New York PostKyle SmithNot that a film as taut and exciting as this one needs punchy dialogue, but Black Sea has that, too. |
| Philadelphia WeeklyGenevieve ValentineThere's an immediacy to a submarine movie like nothing else. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongIn the end, "Black Sea" is a taut warning about the evil allure of greed. It also makes clear why vacationing on submarines has never caught on. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfFlawed, but when it clicks together, it does so superbly, giving classic cinema conventions a successful modern spin. |
| Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekBlack Sea is so almost-terrific that it's ultimately more disappointing than a movie that's merely badly or carelessly made. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordScreenwriter Dennis Kelly turns to the old Nazi-sub-full-of-gold chestnut for a thriller that resembles an underwater "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" with a dollop of "The Caine Mutiny" and an underlying theme of fathers and sons. |
| The AtlanticChristopher OrrBy no means a masterpiece, but a solid genre offering, a portrait of desperate men crammed together and surrounded on all sides by what one describes as "dark, cold death." What better way to escape the midwinter doldrums? |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaWith creepy sound effects (thuds and clangs and groans, oh my) and a mounting - make that sinking - sense of dread, Black Sea is at once fist-clenchingly suspenseful and, well, dull. |