By the time its clunking climax rolls around, the film has built up enough honest good will that you can forgive its tear- jerking pomp.
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Men of Honor (2000)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:42
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: De Niro and Goodings Jr. manage to turn in performances that make this by-the-numbers inspirational movie watchable.
Theatrical Release:Nov 10, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $46,242,629
Synopsis: Carl Brashear lets nothing stand in the way of his dreams. The son of a Kentucky sharecropper, Carl leaves home for what he expects would be a better life. "Never quit ... be the best," his father... [More]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Charlize Theron, Hal Holbrook
Director: George Tillman
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Reviews for Men of Honor
Top Critic[Interracial-buddy flicks] are back, and while they've gotten more sophisticated in some ways, they haven't necessarily gotten any better.
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Top CriticMen of Honor takes Carl Brashear's life of accomplishment and bravery and reduces it to the level of an ABC After School Special.
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All things considered, it's an honorable effort.
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... could have been excellent if it was a story of real people, not simple and self-important one-dimensional characters.
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Packed with clichés.
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Not an ounce of anything real or true in this almost-true story.
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A museum of every ramrodded steel-gutted cliche from the era when Hollywood turned out officially approved salutes to military figures.
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Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. are eminently watchable.
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An earnest but C-plus tribute to an A-grade character.
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Top CriticIt deserves a court-martial for taking such a promising premise and grinding it into mediocrity.
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It is patriotic in the best way possible: by reaffirming truths we hold to be self-evident.
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Generic and poky, redeemed only somewhat by the two leads and the periodic effective segments.
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A second-rate melodrama.
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This is a really good film...it's worth a matinee at least, for the performances if not anything else.
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Ends up emphasizing fanciful inspiration over gritty realism, despite the story's factual basis.
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Even if the saccharin level is raised to gargantuan heights, the diving scenes are exciting, right? Wrong.
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It might be about a master diver, but as a drama it surely doesn't go very deep, and it sinks awfully fast.
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