The Hunt for Red October [Blu-ray]

Movie was released just as the Soviet Empire was disintegrating. It seems that Connery has served too long in the Russian Navy and has designs of defecting with crew and submarine to the USA. He's convinced that a new, soundless submarine will lead to yet another arms race, at minimum. The problem is that the entire Russian northern fleet is after him and the Americans aren't sure whether the Russians are using a ploy to attack USA interests. Enter Jack Ryan to correctly interpret Connery's every move in a typical underwater chess match. Only a loyal Russian saboteur causes havoc before he's overcome, thus adding weight to the drama. A good, not great movie with action, suspense and the aging Connery making for a good buy at a reasonable price, especially when boxed with other related specials.

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Without a doubt one of the best submarine movies to have come along in recent years. I have yet to see any of the older submarine movies from the 50' and 60's but look forward to seeing those too (gotta love Netflix!). I am a huge fan of the genre itself and have watched this movie on VHS for years. Now that I've worn the tape too thin and have a home theatre system its time to put this one in the DVD player and listen to it in Dolby surround. Not a huge Alec Baldwin fan but he fared well in this film. Acting was terrific and the underwater cat and mouse games is a nail biter for sure. I dont know what it is about this genre of movies but its the whole ambience that sucks you in because of the dimly lit tight quarters and not knowing what dangers lurk several hundred feet down in the ocean. I look forward to more of them in the future.

There have been a lot of good sub movies made over the years, including the great Run Silent Run Deep, The Enemy Below, Torpedo Alley, and Das Boot. But The Hunt for Red October might be the best of them all, because of the fascinating and detailed depiction of how nuclear submarines actually operate and what advanced submarine battle strategy in an age of electronic countermeasures is really like. The fun part of this movie is watching the two captains trying to outwit each other in a deadly game of hide and seek, and "torpedo chicken."

Sean Connery is great in the lead role as the maverick Lithuanian captain, but Alex Baldwin, Scott Glen turn in fine performances too. When Connery decides to defect with the world's most advanced nuclear sub, a sub with magnetohydrodynamic propulsion, his top submarine student is sent to find him and sink his ship before it's too late. But Connery is too crafty even for his brilliant student, and when his student makes the desperate, fatal move of removing the proximity fuse from the torpedo, he seals his own fate. The special effects and the explosions are also spectacular. Perhaps the last of the great Cold War thriller movies, The Hunt for Red October is a realistic, intelligent, and dramatic movie about sophisticated submarine warfare and tactics in the nuclear age.

My husband and I got this for his dad as a christmas present. It's a great movie that has a plot intriguing enough to capture my father-in-law's attention (which is no small feat). It's wide-screen, though, which not everyone prefers.