Black Sea
2014 · Movie · R · 115 min · ★ 6.3 · 71% critics
A down-on-his-luck submarine captain assembles a mixed crew for an illegal dive to recover a rumored cache of gold from the Black Sea. Trapped in a rusting vessel with danger mounting, greed, fear, and mistrust spread fast, turning the mission into a tense fight to stay alive.
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Details
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-12-05
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (1,179 votes)
- Box office
- $4,070,789
About
If you enjoy gritty, pressure-cooker thrillers about desperate crews and risky missions, this delivers tense underwater conflict and survival stakes; Not for you if you need strict realism or subtle character work—closer in spirit to Crimson Tide or U-571.
Pros: tense claustrophobic setup; strong cast energy; steady suspense beats | Cons: implausible details; clichéd character types; uneven accents, dialogue
Themes
- sea
- gold
- submarine
- underwater
Cast & crew
Jude Law
as Captain Robinson
Karl Davies
as Liam
Jodie Whittaker
as Chrissy
Daniel Ryan
as Kurston
Scoot McNairy
as Daniels
Tobias Menzies
as Lewis
Michael Smiley
as Reynolds
David Threlfall
as Peters
Ben Mendelsohn
as Fraser
Konstantin Khabenskiy
as Blackie
Directed by Kevin Macdonald