Storyline
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Directors
Cast
Jude Law, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Kevin Macdonald, Tobias Menzies, Jodie Whittaker, Michael Smiley, Branwell Donaghey, Scoot McNairy, Charles Steel, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Karl Davies, Daniel Ryan, Bobby Schofield, Sergey Veksler, Sergey Kolesnikov, Llewella Gideon, Gus Barry, Zaak Conway, Yuri Klimov, Dennis Kelly, Paulina Boneva
Trailer
Reviews
80
Empire
Though it perhaps inevitably lives in the shadow of some subgenre masterpieces, Black Sea is a superbly shot men-on-a-mission thriller with chest-tightening tension and a striking contemporary resonance.
80
Black Sea runs a few fathoms short of classic status. But its blend of old-fashioned storytelling values and zeitgeisty relevance make it a worthy addition to sub-aquatic cinema’s nerve-juddering legacy.
70
The Dissolve
Not content simply to make a finely tuned undersea action film, Macdonald reaches for something more significant and comes up short, trapping his own treasures under a tidal wave of thwarted ambition.
63
Slant Magazine
As much as the film is primarily a genre workout for director Kevin McDonald, the script makes room for a tough-minded, psychologically corrosive depiction of vengeance.
60
As ruggedly crafted as you’d expect from director Kevin Macdonald, with a sturdy ensemble led by Jude Law as a submarine captain of formidable sangfroid, the film nonetheless never quite sparks to life.
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