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Cast

Matthew Davis
as Ensign Douglas O'Dell

Bruce Greenwood
as Lt. Brice

Olivia Williams
as Claire Paige

Scott Foley
as Lt. Coors

Holt McCallany
as Loomis

Zach Galifianakis
as Weird Wally

Jason Flemyng
as Stumbo

Dexter Fletcher
as Kingsley

Nick Chinlund
as Chief

Jonathan M. Hartman
as Schillings

Matthew Leitch
as Zap

Andrew Howard
as Hoag

Christopher Fairbank
as Pappy

Nick Hobbs
as Captain Winters

Tim Plester
as Motormac

Crispin Layfield
as Navy Lookout

Sebastian Knapp
as Sonar No. 1

Max Casali
as Air Manifold

Alexis Conran
as Helmsman

Gary Broadway
as Mess Steward

Craig Blake
as Steward

Mitchell Barnett
as Bow Planesman

David Crow
as Sonar No. 2

Chris Bridgeman
as Stern Planesman

David Twohy
as British Captain

Chuck Ellsworth
as Navy Pilot

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• May 01, 2016

  Twohy does a great job (mainly in the first hour) in slowly building an absorbing mystery in this claustrophobic mix of horror and war movie (like Das Boot meets The Shining), even if later on it is weakened by stupid plot holes and a silly attempt to sound profound in the end.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Oct 11, 2015

  Didn't hate it, but I expected more from a Twohy/Aronofsky combo.
  

  Gimly M Super Reviewer
• Jun 06, 2014

  Pleasant surprise right here. I always say this, but I don't ever go in to a movie expecting for it to suck. But there are certain movies where I'm almost "forced" to watch them in the sense they've either been on my Netflix queue for too long, or I'm in the mood for something of that ilk. This is one of those movies, I wasn't really intrigued, at all, by it and the concept but I decided to give it a watch. Not that I was blown away by this, but I found it to actually be a pretty good movie outside of some goofy moments near the end and some of the convoluted plot elements like finding out what really happened to Captain Winters. I don't think the film does a great job at properly explaining what was going on with Captain Winters. Eventually you connect the dots, but it's not because they did a good job at exposition. With that said, I still liked this film's atmosphere and most of its storytelling. The claustrophobic nature of being in such a closed-quarters setting certainly helped a lot with the storytelling. It helps when Brice's psyche, and Loomis to a much lesser extent, starts to unravel. He becomes obsessed and paranoid with what happened to Winters, to the point he believes that Winters is haunting the submarine in order to bring it down with him. Brice would rather sink the ship with everybody on board, than to face the consequences of his actions. The film also does a good job at throwing some red herrings in there, it's not necessarily THAT hard to figure out, but the film does make an effort to lead you down a path when it's clearly heading in the other direction. This is a psychological horror film at its core and it definitely works for most of it, builds some good suspense and tension. I was into the film right from the start, something I wasn't really expecting. But props to the screenwriters, including Darren Aronofsky, in managing to tell a compelling story, flaws be damned. I enjoyed this film quite a bit, it's got some corny moments near the end but those aren't really that detrimental to the final quality of the film. If you're a fan of atmospheric, moody horror then this would be right up your alley.
  Jesse O Super Reviewer
• May 11, 2014

  The movie comes so close to working, but Twohy can't keep the tone consistent. It doesn't help that he spends so much time developing a supernatural threat, only to abandon it in the finale for a weak resolution to the undercooked mystery behind said threat.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer

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