Managed to catch this one on Friday. I went with a few fellow Submariner buddies of mine and we dug it, though we did find ourselves laughing pretty hard at quite a bit of the dialogue. The thing is, you can tell on the Submarine aspect that there is a bit of a clash where what is realistic and what is interesting conflict and in that respect, we were pretty forgiving of this film caving into what needed to happen for it to be entertaining while rolling with laughter over the impossibility of what they were demanding from the Submarine.

Don't know where I'm going with this. Just my perspective as someone who has served a lot of time onboard a Sub. It was fun and put some decent care into finding the balance between exciting and realism. I felt like some of the subplots never really went anywhere. The XO mostly annoyed me. The shots of Butler hunting deer at the beginning were supposed to be profound, but really just took any surprises out of his character arc. I could go on, but I'll just go to sleep instead.