'Black Sea' Is Easily The Best 2015 Release So Far
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A laid-off English submarine captain (Jude Law) gets lured by his old buddies to assemble a team of professional submarine operators to find a lost, sunken U-boat filled with millions of dollars of Nazi gold. Since the submarine they'll need to use to accomplish this is Russian, Law assembles a crew of half Brits and half Russians.
As soon as the vessel begins its journey, the two groups of men are at each other's throats. Jude says from the start that each man will get an equal share of the bounty, and this doesn't sit well, as some crewmembers deem themselves more essential than others. Why should a homeless teenage boy (recruited by Law at the last minute) get the same amount of money as the hulking Russian who does all the heavy lifting?
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The majority of "Black Sea" takes place on the submarine itself, and the camera work makes the audience feel just as confined as the men on the boat. These men are far from civilized and all have severe tunnel vision about the mission at hand.
It's not long before the actions of one rogue man puts the lives of those on board and the mission itself in jeopardy, and from that point forward, there's no telling what may happen next. It becomes a matter of life and death rather than a matter of becoming rich. The cinematography is gorgeous in spite of all this ugliness, and there are some particularly chilling shots when some men leave the boat to find the gold.
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"Black Sea" is an amalgam of submarine thrillers and "one-last-job" heist films that succeeds on all fronts, borrowing ideas we've seen before and executing them so well that they feel new again. In January, a "dump month" utilized by studios to unload their disasters ("Mortdecai," "Strange Magic"), Black Sea sticks out like a Russian sub and is easily the best 2015 release thus far.
"Black Sea" is now playing in limited release and will expand wide Friday, January 30th.
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