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It looks like countless bot reviews have pumped up the ratings for this 'movie', but in reality it's just a longer version of watching a very poor generic US daytime TV episode of formulaic garbage!

It's a fun watch even though slightly ridiculous in how it turns Afflecks character into a superhero for those on the spectrum. One egregious error though is when it claims that Ohio was the birthplace of the first computer! What total nonsense, but I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise given the American narrative that they are the greatest that have ever been (yet their only real inventions and contributions to the world have been the atom bomb, Facebook, Windows and YouTube...

Absolutely dire, so full of clichés, countless plot holes, and all covered in cheesy emotianol smooze to get the story out of a self made hole! The core plot has something, and there's a decent enough cast, but the production and direction to deliver the film is full on amateur and completely wastes its potential. Why any finance is given to these people is farcical. You can walk walk an audience through a story with so many obvious clues that they have to be an utter moron to not see what's coming, but this is like US daytime tv standards for the infirm. And yet certain political idiots with no clue about what makes a decent watch wonder why the vast majority of current American produced films fail so hard, despite their funding and advantages!! Many of the best films of all time have come from America, but it's been a rarity for some time now, whether US audiences realise who acted in, produced or directed their recent favourites or not. Its either superheroes, originally excellent but recently overtaken by misplaced agendas with disastrous commercial result, or this tripe! Hollywood sold its soul a long time ago to propaganda funded nonsense or social agenda driven shit that neither entertains or inspires. But plenty of others still do, especially in conjunction with good scripts and finance, but your government apparently wants to tax them oit of existence. Totally laughable and yet tragic too.

Absolutely dire! Totally ridiculous plot accompanied by some of the worst, most wooden acting I've seen for year. At times Hartnett has a weird grin than mostly looks like he finds it hilarious that he accepted the role

Lots of good performances, but sooo many completely odious characters!

Such a strange mix. Some great cast mixed in with some incredibly wooden acting. A huge amount of potential in the story, but constantly let down by either terrible writing or robotic direction. Its like someone with great industry connections let their rather entitled but enormously empowered 14 yr old daughter loose, got her to take a super fast flick through history ... and this was the outcome

Absolute nonsense from start to end, one of the worst ever Holywood/Gibson rewritings of actual historical events. Even a basic level of research quickly tells us what actually happened, yet this drivel still shamelessly flips the nature, actions and deeds of extremely well documented historical characters. And to an even greater extent, it reverses how, when and where nearly everything that happens in this film actually went down at the time. While the clue of what another Gibsonised version of history would deliver was always in the title, patriotic fervour really did a number on history with this one.

Absolutely dire, has to be the lowest budget film I've seen for years!

What was building up to be a good, if seriously exaggerated version of the real events, the film fell apart around 50 mins by suddenly, and inexplicably, departing from the "based on a real story" credibility. Something sadly reinforced rather than rescuing it as the last 20 mins finally returned to mearish reality, and then tragically through final credits showing the real people who risked their lives on the actual mission. So what's all the made up stuff about? Regardless of some messed up need to exploit anything genuinely inspiring, it's just so disrespectful to take such liberties with an historical event when people risked their lives to protect tje unique modern freedoms we so take for granted. Part of why this riles so much is that my father's father died at the age of 21 in Nov 1942 after 3 years of near continuous service, close to the time this film was set, when his ship was sunk. It happened within a few days of when his son was born, so they never even met. 82 years on and my Dad's done more and served so many times over thann most of us could remotely imagine, yet is somehow still a truly gentle soul. That said, while he's also incredibly resilient and tough, I dread to think what he would feel seeing this pulp version of a horrible, tragic chain of events for most involved.

This was actually quite good for a lot of the film. Could have given it 4 stars except for two big negatives. Ironically, the worst part was Masie Williams, the high profile draw, putting in such a dreadful, totally unconvincing performance as most of the rest of the cast were at least decent. The other was the reveal of the completely ott stereotypical evil boss at the top, at which point it tumbled even faster.