I am sure I will get downvoted like the other guy did for noting we know for a certainty there was NO collision. Two other subs of the same class had missile tube leaks, and in fact the K-219 itself had a tube welded shut from a prior leak. A leak in the tube will cause an explosion in the missile fuel types the Soviets were using. It is not just the US sub commander and crew who said there was no collision but literally ALL officers and crew on the Soviet sub said the same thing. The soviet Navy archives released in 2016 show there was no collision whatsoever, and the Soviets investigations showed and concluded that as well. The Soviet naval officers and submariner personnel were skilled and courageous. BUT the leadership of the Soviet Union constantly pushed dangerous, untested, poorly designed and built, and often poorly maintained boats out into active service when they were deathtraps. That is why some in the soviet leadership blamed their own crew or the Americas sub -- to distract from the fact it was the soviet leadership's fault. The US book that came out on this is total fiction, completely and systematically ignoring the facts, and this film manages to get even more wrong.

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.

This is pretty much a one man show.Mr R.Hauer is outstanding as the Russian submarine captain determined at all costs to save his crew after a nuclear accident at sea.His is the only character allowed to develop.His American counterpart - Mr M.Sheen - is very one - dimensional by comparison. Mr Hauer is hypnotic.No wonder his men are willing to follow him to hell and back.He radiates strength and integrity. The Cold War politics may seem slightly ridiculous until you remember the reluctance of the Russian navy to acknowledge the plight of the "Kursk" much more recently - proof - if it were needed - that suspicion is deeply rooted in that nation's soul. There is a smattering of British thesps scattered through the Russian crew giving it a certain European gravitas. The claustrophobic nature of the submariner's life is well realised. Whether the incident recounted in the movie occurred in real life is obviously a moot point, but that debate should not be allowed to sideline the overwhelming merits of this production. Before reading the other comments on this site I hadn't realised that "Hostile Waters" was a TV movie;without being in any way patronising I can only say that only makes it even more impressive.

Oh my god, this movie was amazing!!! I'm a very big fan of Dominic Monaghan, but since I live in Sweden, I'm not able to see that much of him, so I was very, very, very happy when I looked through the newspaper and saw that they were going to show Hostile Waters!!! Then, I was a little disappointed that he only had like one line in the whole movie! But, it was still a great movie! I almost started to cry... Seriously!!! Well, it was a great movie, and I'm glad I taped it, 'cause I'm going to see it again!!!