Black Sea

Jude Law fondles his gold in Black Sea

Kevin Macdonald's Black Sea is a routine, yet fairly engrossing genre picture. Jude Law plays a submarine captain who leads a motley crew of British and Russian mercenaries trying to pilfer gold from a sunken Nazi U-boat. This is a predictable portrait of disparate men under stress, but the film boasts logical and economic construction and fine performances. The theme of class resentments seems tacked on, but the conflicts between the crew are solidly enacted by Law, Karl Davies, David Threlfall and the dependable Ben Mendelsohn. Overall, a somewhat anonymous, yet solid B picture with a surprising ending.
at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
  • Warm Water Under A Red Bridge
    Misa Shimizu and Kōji Yakusho Shohei Imamura's Warm Water Under A Red Bridge , his final feature film from  2001,  is an odd and affecti...
  • Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    Tye Sheridan Christopher Landon's Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse  sank without a trace commercially and was generally reviled cri...
  • B'twixt Now and Sunrise
    Elle Fanning Francis Ford Coppola's B'twixt Now and Sunrise  is an unsuccessful horror film which Coppola has been tinkering with fo...
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Ilinca Manolache Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World  is another impressive feature from the Romanian director....
  • H. M. Pulham, Esq.
    Robert Young and Hedy Lamarr King Vidor's H. M. Pulham Esq. , from  1941,  is a good, if not especially memorable condensation of John P...