So there's a new movie coming out this week titled
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage "starring" Nicholas Cage. Not surprisingly, it's terrible. Some choice review quotes:
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The film’s leaden treatment of this incredible story somehow sucks all the drama out of it.
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USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage, which stars the pathologically available Nicolas Cage as the captain of the doomed ship, is equal parts cheap shark attack movie, crappy wartime weepie, and hackneyed courtroom drama.
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It’s probably time that critics stopped giving Nicolas Cage a reflexive poke for his glowering hambone performances — because, frankly, he’s now toning it down.
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CGI doesn’t get better with goofy looking shark attacks, adding a touch of “Sharknado” to the real-world terror of survivors floating for five days without supplies, facing the merciless trials of the ocean.
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coupled with the lousy visual effects used for the Japanese torpedoes that sink the Indianapolis and the leaping-out-of-the-water sharks that feed on the naval officers, make the proceedings feel like a Syfy Channel B-movie.
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Tom Sizemore as a crewman in a life raft screaming in agony and clutching his chomped-off leg like a teddy bear.
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“Men of Courage” doesn’t do justice to those men by being as half-hearted and clumsily-scripted as this film is.
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CGI that wouldn’t pass muster in a DTV Asylum title.
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Darn it, why can't they make a good "boat movie" anymore?
