'Hunter Killer' offers decent action but not much else | Review
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The latest in a seemingly endless line of low-budget, Gerard Butler-starring action movies, Hunter Killer offers perfunctory entertainment but never comes within shouting distance of the best submarine-centric movies out there. A United States submarine shadowing a Russian sub goes missing, prompting the Joint Chiefs of Staff (led by Gary Oldman) to send the USS Arkansas to investigate. Rear Admiral John Fisk (Common) sends Commander Joe Glass (Butler) to head the Arkansas, uncovering a plot by internal dissidents to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Russian President in the hopes of starting a war. When Glass finds another downed Russian sub and rescues its captain (the late Michael Nyqvist), it becomes a race against the clock as US ground forces (led by Toby Stephens) attempt to rescue the Russian president while those in the water and the Pentagon try to avoid starting a world war.
'Hunter Killer' offers decent action but not much else | Review
'Hunter Killer' offers decent action but not…
'Hunter Killer' offers decent action but not much else | Review
The latest in a seemingly endless line of low-budget, Gerard Butler-starring action movies, Hunter Killer offers perfunctory entertainment but never comes within shouting distance of the best submarine-centric movies out there. A United States submarine shadowing a Russian sub goes missing, prompting the Joint Chiefs of Staff (led by Gary Oldman) to send the USS Arkansas to investigate. Rear Admiral John Fisk (Common) sends Commander Joe Glass (Butler) to head the Arkansas, uncovering a plot by internal dissidents to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Russian President in the hopes of starting a war. When Glass finds another downed Russian sub and rescues its captain (the late Michael Nyqvist), it becomes a race against the clock as US ground forces (led by Toby Stephens) attempt to rescue the Russian president while those in the water and the Pentagon try to avoid starting a world war.