Lishes This action movie is fun to watch and quite entertaining but plot is unrealistic and serves rather propagandist purpose and Hollywood stereotypical perception of Soviets and Russians. I recall that I watched this movie when I was a kid and was not impressed. I did it recently after almost 30 years and found it even more ridiculously unrealistic. There was simply no chance that entire crew of the Russian elite experimental submarine decide to betray their country just to see Montana, or for another ludicrous reason like this. I would probably believe that few crew members could plot something there is no way that it could involve all officers or even half of them. I doubt that it might be anybody from a high rank. Tom Clancy obviously never met any real Soviet submarines of that time if he could write this kind of nonsense. Those kind of people would rather die then do anything even relatively close to what is shown in the movie. IMHO, this movie could employ a bunch of Martians on their space ship instead of Russians with the same success,

OllieSuave-007 Sean Connery stars as Soviet Union submarine captain Marko Ramius in this action film, a story about Ramius captaining his country's newest sub but violating Russian orders, heading for the United States instead. As a result, U.S. officials attempt to track down the sub and discover the captain's true intentions.Though this is an action film, much of the movie's entertainment and intrigue stem from the built-up tension, character development, and suspense - from Alec Baldwin's Jack Ryan character trying to help the U.S. sub communicate with Captain Ramius to the subject of defection and warfare. The film has an all-star cast including Connery, Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Scott Glen, Tim Curry, Stellan Skarsgård, and Fred Thompson. Their spot-on acting demonstrated a good mixture of drama and humor.The plot is well-paced and keeps you entertained from start to finish. It's a good movie that captures the tensions of the Cold War during its time. Grade A

moiolentoukoharjola Overall entertaining and interesting!But as someone who knows a bit of Russian, it is immediately clear that Connery didn't spend even an hour studying the language for this movie and is just repeating what he was told to say. It's a shame, if he had even tried with pronunciation, the movie would have been that much better. Because now his Russian sounded more like grunts and gibberish than communication

TonyMontana96 A very average film that never ventures into bad territory but never really ventures into enjoyable territory either. John McTiernan's film looks well made, and it is competently directed, but there was nothing memorable or involving about the story, till the climax, and the plot device is questionable, as the culprit of this twist certainly had no motive nor was there an explanation for why he decided to turn on everyone on board, and I'm of course not talking about Connery, I'm referring to the cook who seemed to just pick up a gun and open fire, see who he could shoot, and that was perhaps the most interesting moment of the film, excluding one or two brilliant scenes of acting from Connery and a cool sequence involving a fairly tense loose missile underwater, but all in all I was not too impressed, and found the film fairly boring a lot of the time, with its clichés, safe narrative and passable performances from the rest of the cast, among it were Alec Baldwin, Sam Neil and Stellan Skarsgaard. The Hunt for Red October just didn't leave me feeling impressed, it's slow pace constantly shows, the story and writing were routine and uninspired and dialogue like "When I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing there Lollipops", doesn't help the films case. This is safe, mediocre filmmaking that doesn't offer much in terms of entertainment or freshness.