Based on the subject matter and the positive reviews at Amazon, I purchased the DVD. Definitely low budget, but no matter -- the story and story telling get you right in the gut. 'Baltic Storm' is passionately acted, written, and directed. The movie does not revel in the 'Estonia' tragedy (it looks like the filmmakers couldn't have afforded to even if they were so inclined), but instead gets to the heart of the whys and wherefores which contributed to the sinking. By the way, it seems that some of the other comments are reviewing the producer and not the movie. At any rate, don't let that put you off. The movie is definitely worth checking out.

I have to admit, I picked this movie just for the cast, and while Sutherland, Scacchi, and Prochnow were - as usual - great performers, the rest of the movie was such a let down. It feels like it was put together by a team of adolescents with low level scripts, that is, scripts lacking any depth, awful photography and editing, and hilariously lousy score! I can't believe I was able to watch this seemingly long movie until the end... the sad thing is, this could have actually been a great political thriller given the interesting plot. All the potential was there to make it a hit; that is, two main ingredients are there: a great story of national conspiracies, and a great core cast (even though many other actors are pretty much soap opera quality). But maybe I'm missing something; until then it's still not worth more than a 3 in my opinion.

This music is totally out of touch with the film, showing up now and then as wagnerian bombast and Lone Ranger hurry-up, otherwise nonexistent. The acting, outside of the two principals, is nonexistent. It would have been an excellent student film. The Russian soldiers are just models trying to act. The constant interruptions with wow-explosive-camera angles and monocolor clips of pieces of people were quite irritating, but that's just a personal feeling. The story line isn't worse than others, actually not worse than most, completely ignoring logic and reason and reality. At least nobody walked in front of a machine gun for three minutes without being hit. The three top-level bad guys were campy.

The Baltic Storm is a very controversial story which I think have a lot of truth in it. It's about the big catastrophe in 1994 when the ship Estonia sank between Estonia and Sweden. Over 800 people died and only around 100 where saved.The survivors told about explosions and the proof also told that something wasn't right in the official story about what had happen.This movie is about that and it's quite interesting, but you should not expect any movie like Titanic. This is a movie which have been done to tell the alternative truth with a low budget.I recommend this movie to all you out there which don't buy all the crap politicians and other high people tells us.