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Director: Mario Van Peebles
Writers: Cam Cannon, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane
Genre: Action, Drama, History
'During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.'
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, ain't as bad as a shark bite, and it isn't as bad as people make it out to be. On the other hand it ain't real good either. Most of the fault lays with lame direction by Mario van Peebles. Yeah that actor guy who once stared in Jaws 4 The Revenge...Now he'sin the director's seat and taking his revenge on the audience.
The film goes limp when the men go into the water and soon after a Jaws like shark attacks happen. No real suspense, no real sense of what the men went through, no heart felt stories or deeply emotional scenes, just lots of sharks chomping on sailors. This might be funny if it wasn't for one thing, this really happened!
The USS Indianapolis, was the U.S. Naval ship that delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian Island on a secret mission. After successfully delivering the bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, the USS Indianapolis sails back to the U.S. without an escort...where it was sunk by a loan Japaneses submarine. Due to a military screw up, the sinking ship's SOS was never responded to and of the
1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship. While the remaining 900 crew member were in the ocean with almost no food or water for four days. By the time they were rescued only 317 had survived.
Mostly factual, most of what you see in this movie is factual including the court martial of the Captain played by Nicholas Cage and his in-person meeting of the Japanese Imperial Navy officer who sunk his ship.
I wish this had a better script, especially the all important part about the men who were stuck floating in the Pacific ocean for four days. Their story is all important and I feel this film glossed over that for some silly close ups of shark attacks.
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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Writers: Cam Cannon, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane
Genre: Action, Drama, History
'During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.'
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, ain't as bad as a shark bite, and it isn't as bad as people make it out to be. On the other hand it ain't real good either. Most of the fault lays with lame direction by Mario van Peebles. Yeah that actor guy who once stared in Jaws 4 The Revenge...Now he'sin the director's seat and taking his revenge on the audience.
The film goes limp when the men go into the water and soon after a Jaws like shark attacks happen. No real suspense, no real sense of what the men went through, no heart felt stories or deeply emotional scenes, just lots of sharks chomping on sailors. This might be funny if it wasn't for one thing, this really happened!
The USS Indianapolis, was the U.S. Naval ship that delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian Island on a secret mission. After successfully delivering the bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, the USS Indianapolis sails back to the U.S. without an escort...where it was sunk by a loan Japaneses submarine. Due to a military screw up, the sinking ship's SOS was never responded to and of the
1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship. While the remaining 900 crew member were in the ocean with almost no food or water for four days. By the time they were rescued only 317 had survived.
Mostly factual, most of what you see in this movie is factual including the court martial of the Captain played by Nicholas Cage and his in-person meeting of the Japanese Imperial Navy officer who sunk his ship.
I wish this had a better script, especially the all important part about the men who were stuck floating in the Pacific ocean for four days. Their story is all important and I feel this film glossed over that for some silly close ups of shark attacks.
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