Hunter Killer

Once all this starts coming together, Hunter Killer is absorbing, even if Marsh and his screenwriters never pretend to be half as interested in their characters as they are in the submarines.

It's nice to spend a couple of hours in a fictional world where we don't have to worry about the American president doing something ruinously idiotic and evil. It plays like a nostalgic fairy tale.

[You'll] find more enjoyment watching a plastic yellow submarine sink to the bottom of a bathtub than watching this film.

Splitting the difference between scenes of Navy SEAL rescue attempts, underwater evasive maneuvers and your own countdown clock toward an incipient nap, Hunter Killer feels both generic and underheated.

All the actors are sunk by playing caricatures prone to spitting out leaden, often unintentionally humorous dialogue.

Butler's performance-or lack thereof-keeps Hunter Killer from breaking any ground in the field of war movies.

With its blend of geopolitical intrigue and action, “Hunter Killer” is sure to satisfy genre fans.

a beefy Tom Clancy-type thriller that takes no prisoners

Military stories in particular have long gotten away with total homogeneity, but the U.S. military is much more diverse than Hunter Killer suggests.

[Gerard Butler's] in uniform again on screen and he does a wonderful job.