In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold (www.imdb.com).
Director: Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, The Eagle)
Starring: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn
Black Sea is a movie with a mixture of genres, never quite settling on one or the other. A bawdy action-adventure turns in to a political thriller before swiftly moving on to an epic fight for survival. This does not help its characters one bit. The two most famous of actors, the ones with the biggest bravados, are completely off key. Jude Law, the captain of the submarine and its expedition, goes from hard-as-steel authoritarian to crazy-for-the-gold man of decadence. His band of brothers, half British, half Russian, turn on each other for a bigger split of the gold that they're attempting to plunder. The man who starts it off, and the other big bravado, is Ben Mendelsohn. He switches from thug to nice boy to thug again, depending on the other man's background. Black Sea is a predictable deep sea disaster, one that has neither the claustrophobic feeling expected in a submarine or an immense fear of the ocean.
2/5
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