Review of Hunter Killer (2018) by Dawdlingpoet — 28 Nov 2021

This is a pretty bog standard action thriller film (which was sadly lacking in enough action scenes) set on a sub. I liked seing Linda Cardellini, who plays Jayne Norquist. She seemed to spend a fair bit of time on screen and yet I note that when I went to IMDB to check the cast list, her name didn't appear in the abridged/condensed cast list, which somehow disappointed me. I thought she was good in the film anyway.

Another random observation/thought - Gerard Butler sounded remarkably like Keifer Sutherland. I kept wondering where Jack Bauer was hiding, as it sounded like him so much!. The film itself, plot wise, is a little slow and perhaps a bit meandering. There is a bit of a sense of tension but it wasn't a film that kept me constantly glued to the set. Its somewhat watchable and features some ok performances, its just not particularly memorable and certainly not engrossing, or so I felt. I suppose if I had to compare it to any other similar type of film, I'd maybe think of Under Siege, only this film is certainly slower. I wouldn't go out of your way to watch this film, so no, I wouldn't recommend it. It's also a bit cheesy.