Crimson Tide

Name: Crimson Tide
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Released: 1995-05-12
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 7.178
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen

Danger runs deep.

EN116 min 7.212 May 1995

Action Thriller War

PlotAfter the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.

Budget: $53,000,000Box Office: $157,387,195

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What Viewers Say

John Chard

There are few better sights in 90s cinema than watching Hackman & Washington go at each other the way they do here, starting off as just a fractious relationship, it then explodes into a war of belief and wills. Then there is Denzel Washington as Ron Hunter, eloquently spoken and a voice of reason, his ruggedness coming to the fore as the submarine starts to implode.

CinemaSerf

Tempers flare and when a rogue Russian sub opens fire on them, things pass a point of no return. Sadly, at this point the drama becomes all to farcical as the tautly directed opening scenarios between the two men become absurdly tribal antics onboard - to the point where the last half hour or so just beggars belief.