There is nothing that is presented in this film that would allow the viewer,that is you or I, the ability whereby this particular offering entitled,"Hostile Waters" was anything more than an entertainment vehicle.The Motion Picture culture has created a false sense of identity or the equal if you will of a false sense of importance which by its very make-up provides nothing more than a spectacular premise to an already outrageous lie.This however deflating such care is, it is such care that would not lie merely to save face but would indeed provide the kind of information whereby time would be better spent than being entertained by a pompous blow hard with nothing more than pulling a fast one and making money as well.There is hardly anything more than a sound stage, and performances being what they are, are as well performances designed to provide, or at least make the effort to convince the audience that what the audience is viewing is believable.This is in principal what there is to look at if in fact there is anything to the premise or in its presentation that is to be believed.Entertaining most certainly but entertaining to be certain.The purpose had in being entertained is not always quite the entertainment vehicle that perhaps entertainment is customarily associated with, and it is this association that is where the difficult problem that this entertainment vehicle is often associated.It is truly a demanding task to ask of the audience to believe that what we see is what we get when we are looking at for our viewing pleasure a motion picture.It is in fact a virtual impossibility that what you see is what you get,unless you see more than is provided you will never see what you get nor will there ever be a need too.The reason is that these films should never be provided with the ability to enter into such areas and even more so there is so many outrageous lies that if attacked in truth there would be those that would believe and defend a lie because of another reason all together.The cumulative effect of such a defense is that the mis-guided idealogy is basing its own idea of importance on a false set of assumptions thereby providing society with a lost character and indeed a rather volatile chemistry is established that is in fact deviant.That is most of this world and much of what this industry has provided has been further enhanced with a underpinning whereby importance,self esteem and self acceptance are all part of the premise to entertainment and the entertainment medium.The ever dangerous encroachment is that Fascism and a related idealogical underpinning are very much on the side of this kind of problem and indeed it is this that provides a measure of justification to its own existence,they both are in fact the same problem.This film entitled "Hostile Waters" is only an example as would be any whose pedigree sought justification for its outrage against humanity.This being what it is,it is not anything new, nor is what this world has been up to for a time entered into anything new as well.This information can be found in the latter days of the 19th century with other informed positions suggesting quite well that there was something to the "Mass Psychology of Fascism".It is what has transpired and there is more to come.This measure of encroachment has sought to supersede nature and it is the cause as to its ability to over-ride normal sensibility,indeed we are in the throes of a new world order and a new world order is going to come around again.This is the real deal and either you get rid of it or it will get rid of you.This vehicle is most certainly entertaining however most certainly entertaining is not all there is to this vehicle.

Let me not mince words... that's a rather silly thing to mince, anyway, why not mince meat, instead, unless you were a vegetarian, or didn't want to be asked the relatively appropriate question "have you been mincing?"(credit for that joke goes to "'Allo 'Allo")...but I digress. What I wanted to get out of the way up front, as opposed to down below(Seagal, you might wanna see a doctor about that Fire...), is that I did not set out to watch this anticipating a u-boat flick... the title had me thinking it'd be about sharks(not that I'm really that much more into that, really...); my fiancée said it made sense to think that aforementioned sea-creature would somehow be involved, which made me feel better. Anyway, me viewing this and now writing this review is basically me making lemonade. It was an enjoyable enough 90 minutes or so. The plot isn't bad and develops fine. Pacing is satisfactory. There is an OK amount of suspense. I wouldn't advise someone looking for a terribly action-packed picture to choose this. The cast boasts some good names, and the acting, all the way, is at a decent enough standard. Writing is adequate. I can't claim that this had me spellbound, but I never really felt that what was on the screen was downright poor(and again, this is not the type of film I normally go for). It's a cold war piece of overall reasonable quality, so if you dig those, or cannot live without having had everything that features underwater stuff and/or submarines, hey, knock yourself out. I recommend this to anyone found in aforementioned groups. Fans of the people who helped make this may want to give it a torpedo launch, too. 7/10

Can anyone confirm if it's really so difficult to lower the rods in the reactor as shown in this film? I'd have thought that for a mechanism so important as this, there'd be a "release" button which dropped them. Or at least the pivot would be easily turned.Apart from that, as other posters have written, this is a fun Saturday night movie with some basis in fact. There are plenty worse. Why employ great actors like von Sydow but barely use him? There are clear influences from Das Boot and so on, but for the budget they have done a pretty good job. An experienced sailor commends it for its accurate portrayal of men under pressure, I note.

This is a well done nail biter with great effects, sensitive acting, believable characters and gritty realism. It's been criticised for taking liberties with the book. Yet little is really known about the incident which legitimately opens the door to dramatic licence. It's right up there in the top five submarine movies of all time.