Robert Steven Schwartz

Johnny Depp shows his versatility in this role as one of the worst mob criminals. He became Whitey Bulger. The movie was not very compelling when compared to the such mob movies like Godfather and The Irishman. It was very slow at times.

Slow confusing and makes no sense. Don’t waste your time

Even judged by the standards of the 1980s, when this was produced, this film is ridiculously unrealistic. We already had Star Wars and Star Trek motion pictures to judge this by.

Not horrible, the acting was spotty, some good, like the guys playing seals, others, like the poor dope who played the VP, terrible. Story ok.

What terrific little movie. I never heard of it and didn’t expect to like it. But it was a good story well acted with a nice score. Do yourself a little favor and turn down the lights, put your feet up, crank up the old surround sound and let it take you away!

It’s so consistently true: a truism, I think. When professional critics love a film, it truly sucks and when they hate one, I find too often that I love it. This was a beautiful little film, so much that I bought it on DVD and I almost always watch it whenever it pops up. Robin Williams was a great actor; a funny, nice, everyman. And Annabella was so pretty and they made a nice attractive, sad, optimistic movie. Cuba Gooding is always great and was here as well.

I expected less than nothing from a movie about which I never heard, but I like Brosnan, Baccarin, and Caan. So wtf. It is a terrific movie, fast moving, ironically hilarious, and sad. This was James Caan last movie and he did a fine job though he was clearly running on empty, dying before it was even released.

I learned to fly in the late 1960s in Piper J3 Cubs. They had no flaps and to land at the College Park MD airport, an airport with one short runway with tall hi-tension electrical wires and railroad tracks at one end of the runway and a forest at the other end, you had to use a maneuver called a slip, which allows a plane to quickly lose altitude without gaining speed. I’ve never seen a movie that showed this maneuver so accurately, near the very beginning and near the end. This attention to detail captivated me right away and continuesd throughout the movie. Near the end, they showed sailors walking side-by-side down the carrier’s deck, looking for parts and junk that could damage an airplane, when next they were launched. These details made this movie special for me. I’m a history buff, so I knew the outline of the battle portrayed. Further, this battle has been the subject of several other movies, that I’ve seen and enjoyed. I know I am going to love a movie when the professional reviewers hate it.

It’s not horrible, is the best I can say. The physics of their universe is questionable. On a planet, that our heroines and villains crashed on, the bad guys are in black nasty-looking flight suits, they may be human, but it’s not clear. The bad guys are guys and the good gals are gals. You know, in today’s culture, slim petite gals can always beat several big, strong fellows. In one scene a good gal shoots a bad guy with an energy weapon several times temporarily stunning him, but in one shot, she misses the guy and hits the bad guys’ crashed space craft, making a huge, jagged hole in it. Apparently, the very lightweight environmental flight suit, which looks like one that a present day American fighter pilot might wear, is much stronger than the beefy armored space craft, which is seriously damaged by one shot of the same gun that only stuns the man in the lightweight flight suit, who was hit repeatedly. The good gal beats three big tough-looking bad guys and removes a smallish part out of the alien craft to fix her own crashed space craft. Amazing that they have interchangeable parts that are conveniently located. Ridiculous!

By the third grade I knew enough science to know how this not a “science” fiction movie.