Hunter Killer reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Mark Kermode reviews Hunter Killer. A green American submarine captain teams up with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president.
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“No fixed accent as he wants to avoid detection”. Genius.
Stephen Girling
Another Scotsmen, playing Russian? Or is Gerard Irish? Or English? From Isle of Mann, maybe?
He sounds like he's doing American, with every sixth or seventh word, with his normal accent.
Gary Oldman in "Voyage to the Bottom of my Career".
But smart enough to get an Oscar bait role, and finally earn his first- which was long overdue.
He gets paid no matter what so....
As Michael Caine said about Jaws 4 The Revenge "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
He just had a Voyage to the topside of his career, it's just a long way down. Dive! Dive! Dive!
TheAegisClaw
Always loved that quote.
My Cocaine, is awesome.
I always look forward to Mark's review of any Gerald Butler movie.
Kermode hates Gérard. It's personal
Olympus has sunken? lol
*applauds*
I will now forever refer to Gary Oldman as Shouty Gary.
There is a rule that Scottish actors playing Submarine Commanders can adopt any accent they damn well please.
'we shail into hishtory...'
+Coobacca Let them sing!
@@bincat23 *shing
There was a time in my life when I would have thought this move was bad. I was young, very full of myself, and believing that relaxing and enjoying a movie that did not have a philosophical metaphor was a waste of time and beneath my big brain.
Now that I understand how inconsequence my big brain really is, I loved this move!
10/10
Mark Kermode? A new Gerard Butler movie? Christmas has come early this year between this and Den of Thieves!
It's always Christmas when Mark is forced to endure another Gerard Butler movie for our personal entertainment!
Which I'm happy about unironically. I dug it for the junk food version of HEAT that it is.
That Gary Oldman impression though... XD
'HELLO! I'VE GOT SECRET INFORMATION!' - sounds a bit like Dom Joly with his big mobile phone in Trigger Happy TV!
The quick-cuts and quick-zooms in that scene are eye shredding
Try watching it in the cinema it's like watching puke ripping through you're face
SHAWKLAN 27 Don’t you mean through Gerard Butler’s face?
@@davidalkhed3368 yeah like that
This movie actually kept me entertained from the start to the end
I agree. I just watched it on telly and utterly enjoyed it as an undemanding popcorn flick.
Yeah, I must admit that it took me a little while to swallow the presented plot contrivance of them having the Russian captain on-board who ultimately saved their necks on two very desperate occasions and particularly the second one was a massive cliche, but in the end I was quite happy with the final result.
I will gladly re-watch it some time in the future.
Mark reviewing a G Butler film? Instant classic
I watched this movie last night and I throughly enjoyed it. Don’t need all The critics......
I actually liked this movie, 7/10
Love it. Mark being gnarly snarky makes everything better
Went to see it today, way better than mile 22, Give me Butler over Wahlberg any day. Nice mindless Friday afternoon fun I thought. Don't take it too seriously and you're golden.
Any movie with Whalberg in doesn't even get a look from me
I absolutely loved it as a load of old nonsense. I must admit like Olympus Has Fallen was really, really fun.
I just watched it. The movie is quite fun and tense, I thought. It's a Gerard Butler movie, it was never going to be a masterpiece. But I was entertained.
I've watched 5 of the sharknado films, but even I have the common decency to avoid Gerard Butler like the plague.
Coriolanus was pretty decent.
@@speakatron5634
People who watch Sharknado films usually do not go for stuff as is Coriolanus. I'd bet that he or she absolutely does not know that Butler is also a full-fledged dramatic actor who has done a number of decent and even great films in that genre over the years.
These people watch just the shallow commercial stuff and nothing much beyond.
@@subraxas Yeah, fair enough.
Quite a lot of Eddie Izzard in this review.
"The Hunt For the Crimson October Killer"
@@JD.Knight Das hunt for the fallen crimson hunter killer noot
There were quite a few places in the movie that didn't make military sense. The Undaloy firing SA-N-9 short range anti aircraft missiles to destroy a command centre was only one of them. It was nevertheless a treat to see a CG Virginia Class sub, Akula sub and Undaloy destroyers in manoevres. A real pity that the writers didn't make the Undaloy fire the SS-N-14 Rastrub anti sub missile!!!
I may be wrong, but THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME
Except for angry shouty Gary Oldman! lol
I usually dont like Gerald Butler and his Olympus trilogy but i enjoyed this movie a lot.
Disengage brain. Go watch. This is just a good fun, daft action film. I didn't go for Oscar winning performances or deep intellectual story telling. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Mark: "Did you ever watch Teletubbies?"
Simon: "Of course."
GERARD BUTLER !!!
Shutup Buttwad! :D
SPAAARTAAANS!
Gerard Butler discussing the Captains Quarters - "This.......is.....Spartan !!"
I saw Hunter Killer in cinema & I absolutely loved it, I`d even go far as to say,my favorite movie of 2018 - kid you not. This movie was just outstanding, absolutely riveting, one of the best action spy movies ever - Seriously, Gerald Butler is in terrific form as is all supporting cast, astonishing visual effects, did he see the same movie as I did? Seriously, don`t miss this at the cinema.
All these negative comments are by marks fans who haven't even seen the film. It was alot of fun. Brilliant, really.
I usually skip to the final minute of the review, but I knew this one would wield some 'kermode gems'. So, I watched it to the end!
Saw this movie today, and for the first time I have to say that I disagree with Mark. I really enjoyed it.
I agree. I just watched it on telly and utterly enjoyed it as an undemanding popcorn flick.
Yeah, I must admit that it took me a little while to swallow the presented plot contrivance of them having the Russian captain on-board who ultimately saved their necks on two very desperate occasions and particularly the second one was a massive cliche, but in the end I was quite happy with the final result.
I will gladly re-watch it some time in the future.
Genuinely really entertaining.
Even though I've only seen Gerard Butler in 300, I get the impression that he's always playing the same character in the same movie: the heroic everyman who is "complicated" and is searching for redemption of some kind and finally gets it at the end and has to protect someone (i.e. Presidents) in his doesn't-sound-like-a-Scottish-actor-pretending-to-have-a-convincing-American-accent accent. Please tell me if I'm right.
David Alkhed It’s called ‘typecasting ‘.
He only has _one_ face expression. The contorted-angry-pain-manly sort. So manly, even the mask in Phantom of the Opera broke because of it (or because his singing, whichever came first).
its a real shame that Gerald butler, who I think is a decent actor is getting films with sadly passable scripts and just wish he would concentrate on something worthy of his talent? or is it that there are no decent films being made out there at the moment? :(
paladinbob 123 Angle has fallen 2019 has a good director developing so may be ?
It's because Gerard Butler doesn't put bums on seats and cannot act his way out of paperbag, unless the roles requires Butler to play the same character Butler has been playing for 10 years.
No it's because Butler is a shallow, money grabbing Scotch Ponce
I went to see this last Friday and had a great time. Everyone i know feels the same. If you don't like action movies then you're not going to like this. However, I wanted to punch Gary Oldman's character in the face. Many times.
I enjoyed the movie and have watched it multiple times.
Harsh.... saying that we were the only two in the cinema watching it.... it was like a private screening, and i kinda liked it , for that reason.....
If Mark does not like it then it must be good.
:-D :-D
I'm pretty sure this is basically the storyline from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and/or 3
The stag explanation is gold.
Fits the "Avoid films advertised on the side of buses" advice that Mark gave us a few years ago!
The film is pretty decent for what it is, an actioner. A popcorn flick.
90% of people who actually watched the film sharply disagree with Mark on this one.
P.S. - I like Mark and have followed him for over a decade now, but I also learnt during that time that not everything he thinks and says is automatically a given.
So basically take the backdrop story from Crimson Tide and make a film from it!
I watched "Das Boot" recently, have to say: that submarine looks pretty comfortable.
Yeah, they are much larger nowadays than 80 (!!!!) years ago.
Every single time i have seen the poster for this movie on a bus passing by i have burst out laughing every time, will Gerald Butler ever do a respectable movie anytime this decade?!!!!!!! i mean this movie looks like straight to DVD stuff.... Another review i read said Gary Oldman appears in this movie for about 5 mins and in that time just screams at everybody guess he needs to buy another house or something.......
I just watched it on telly and utterly enjoyed it as an undemanding popcorn flick.
Yeah, I must admit that it took me a little while to swallow the presented plot contrivance of them having the rescued Russian captain on-board who ultimately saved their necks on two very desperate occasions and particularly the second one was a massive cliche, but in the end I was quite happy with the final result.
I will gladly re-watch it some time in the future.
P.S. - In a regard of those "respectable films", during the last 10 years Butler also made such great films as Coriolanus, Machine Gun Preacher, Chasing Mavericks, Den of Thieves, The Vanishing, Greenland, and Copshop.
"Gerard is a complicated character," just threw me!
The Only ABSURD thing is the old blond female President in the Movie because Hollywood refuses to acknowledge at all that Hillary Clinton LOST in the 2016 Presidential Election.
Isn't it launch counter measures
And not evasion devices
The closest the writer ever got to a sub was a foot-long sandwich shop.
"HELLO! I WOULD LIKE A CUP OF COFFEE NOW!" 😂😂
You sir are no Bart Mancuso.
'fly big D, flyyy....'
"The floor tilts and everybody leans backwards"
Mark got Teletubbies confused with Twirlywoos...minor point.
The latest cinematic offering from Gerard "The Beef" Butler.
Lost me at the Deer Hunter line
Can't wait when the next olympus movie comes out this somer.
It really does look like a TV movie
To be the fair the opening of him about to shoot the deer is a set up for what happens at the end but I agree the film is dull main because of the direction. Watching the film all I was thinking was this could have been great 20 years ago with John McTiernan or Tony Scott directing.
I just watched it on telly and utterly enjoyed it as an undemanding popcorn flick. I took it for what it was, an actioner.
The film is full of well-choreographed and well-shot action sequences and even the scenes with people "just" talking are often charged with tension, so that makes it a gripping watch all the way through.
And I was able to swallow the presented cliches and the one massive plot contrivance.
I will gladly re-watch it some time in the future.
Is it a stag or an elk??
‘Hunter Killer’ you say? Mmm, not a fan of art house films myself, but I’ll have a look.
Real space age effects!
Those underwater shots look like a PS1 cutscene.
They’ll fix them up before the DVD release.
Shouty Gary. Brilliant.
Well for once I fundamentally disagree with the good Doctor. Not that it's a good film, it isn't. But the plot is pretty straightforward (however unlikely) and certainly isn't difficult to follow, and as far as I can remember Gary Oldman only shouts once.
I agree. I just watched it on telly and utterly enjoyed it as an undemanding popcorn flick.
Yeah, I must admit that it took me a little while to swallow the presented plot contrivance of them having the Russian captain on-board who ultimately saved their necks on two very desperate occasions and particularly the second one was a massive cliche, but in the end I was quite happy with the final result.
This is exactly what I expected it to be. All is right with the world.
Actually enjoyable if viewed as a action comedy.
How does Gerard Butler have a career? Absolute joker
Most of his films make money, y'know.
You could basically also ask, "how come that non-actor Dwayne The Rock Johnson has a film career?"
Gary Oldman filmed this long before The Darkest Hour....
Why is it everytime they make a submarine movie now it is a lemon. Its a shame because subs are cool.
This looks brilliant
I often get jealous thinking that Mark has a cushy job getting paid to sit and watch movies and then I remember he has to sit through crap like this all the way to the end and then I feel better in myself!
It's an entertaining fictional yarn, popcorn movie
My kind of Film. Just switch my brain off & just watch & Chill.
Soon as I saw this was an action film with Gerard Butler there was only one way this was going to go
I just watched it on telly and utterly enjoyed it as an undemanding popcorn flick.
Yeah, I must admit that it took me a little while to swallow the presented plot contrivance of them having the rescued Russian captain on-board who ultimately saved their necks on two very desperate occasions and particularly the second one was a massive cliche, but in the end I was quite happy with the overall result.
I will gladly re-watch it some time in the future.
Gary Oldman sounds an awful lot like Gordon Cole.
Loved it👍🏻
Ahhhhh Hahahah mark your hilarious. Had me in stitches the entire time.
Gerald must be paying off some serious debts
Launch tax evasion measures!
“Tough...but sensitive”
Good points on Gary Oldman starring in B movies. too funny! Thanks for sharing. Check my review as well!
I saw this today, before watching Halloween. Go see Halloween, even though that’s not that great, either.🙄
Just came back from watching it and Jesus was this movie a boring unimaginative snore.
The entire film is filled with stupid scenes. Men in enemy territory, swimming underwater trying to remain hidden with facemasks that have lights at the temples, using flashlights. A totally idiotic film.
I don't care how dumb it is, it can't be as dumb as Geostorm...can it? 😦
"Hypnotically dull" should be on the poster.
Mummee babee 🤣
Shouty Gary hahahaha
AWESOME movie, almost like a sequel to the hUNT FOR RED october. The only absurd thing is the female Hillary Clinton esque president in the movie. Cant Hollywood simply accept and acknowledge who won and lost the presidential election? If this movie is set in present day, the president in the movie should have been a blonde male, not some old crusty female.
So give it a miss then eh?! 😂
Gerard Butler got to be the worst actor ever
I give it an ehh out of ten
Films that are the equivalent of Capodimonte figurines.
KICKSTART WORLD WAR 3, ya numpties. -__-
It's a spiritual prequel, to Geostorm, at least it might as well be.
Gerard had so much promise in his early career. Now he's just another Jason Statham. He'll turn up in Sharknado next.....
All of his films are awful apart from 300 maybe
Law Abiding Citizen was his second best film imo
Nah surely PS I Love you was the golden nugget lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You watch just the commercial stuff, isn't that right?
Y'know, Butler is also an accomplished dramatic actor who has done a number of decent and even great films in that genre over the years.