what an appalling film . don not get me wrong and gene hackman and denzel washington be good actor and but aside from a few interesting set piece and the film be mostly take up with hysterical submariner shout and cry and sweating and generally freak out when anything go wrong . take that with simplistic aside to make sure the audience still understand what go on ( the scene where denzel washington explain to a radio repairman how he must be like scotty in star trek be nothing more than a joke ) and you have a dumbed down thriller not worthy of the acting . let u just hope that the real nuclear u navy be not in the hand of such a script .