Hunter Killer
Hunter Killer isn’t smart enough to know that it needs to be dumb. The submarine thriller—starring Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, and their iffy American accents—seems to be aiming for verisimilitude: Its wall-to-wall dialogue is a mixture of imposingly nonsensical military jargon and casually delivered tough-guy soldier banter, and its visual look is pure, gleaming weapon-porn, enough to make any gun show attendee doff his camo trucker hat in admiration. But its story, about a US submarine going up against a bunch of Russians, is very silly indeed, and Hunter Killer seems intent on delivering it without even a trace of a wink.
by Ned Lannamann