The Command

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The Command

PG-13

Released Jun 21, 2019

1h 57m

Drama

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On Aug. 12, 2000, explosions aboard the Russian submarine Kursk cause it to sink during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, leaving 23 survivors trapped below on the ocean floor. For the next seven days, members of a rescue team frantically work to reach the men before their dwindling oxygen supply runs out.

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Critics Consensus

The Command plumbs the depths of real-life disaster to tell an uneven yet reasonably diverting story of lives caught between bureaucracy and certain doom.

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Amy Nicholson

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

I was much less compelled by this film. I really was.

Oct 1, 2019

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Ed Potton

Times (UK)

[T]his is a punchy and poignant piece of film-making from Vinterberg.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 13, 2019

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

As a film, Kursk could have wound up much worse, though it has uneven visual effects and goes in for some frankly puzzling decisions, such as a bizarre switch-up in aspect ratios when the sub gets underway.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 12, 2019

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

The Command is a dark movie, despairing, but righteously so. You feel its frustration

Jul 6, 2021

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

The Command is a taut, tension-filled movie, with all actors giving committed performances.

Aug 6, 2020

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

A conventional survival drama. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 6/10

Jul 25, 2020

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Wink D

This movie is worth a watch. It seems as though events in the sub were written by the main character on paper along w a letter to his wife. How accurate the events are, idk. How much additional drama was added, idk. It was very anticlimactic and feels almost as a script that doesn’t like the Russian leaders - maybe that’s true to life idk. In the end, it is a good story and while it could have been a bit more, it feels like it mostly faithfully told the story of the Kursk.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/03/24

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Bob

Das Boot Anus (i.e. kicks ass!)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/13/23

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Francisco S

Not pro-Russian, but you can't stop to think this is propaganda in many ways.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/02/23

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simon b

excellent and balanced

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/20/23

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FeralCat

It's inserting some unknown drama while, as far as I can remember, omitting some internationaly agreed on facts. But, it does bring a humanized perspective on a politically sanitized rescue effort from former Cold War adversaries.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/06/23

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ANTONIO M

Discreet but interesting blockbuster based on a true tragedy, and directed by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg ahead of his award-winning "Another Round". Although it is adapted from the novel "A Time to Die", the work is a historical reconstruction faithful to the events, not at all sensationalistic but very respectful towards the victims and relatives. Thanks to a solid and accurate staging, the screenplay highlights how the Kursk tragedy was the result of a series of wrong choices that jeopardized the coordination of rescue operations: a human and national defeat generated by setbacks and slowness, but above all by impasse and the deadlock of the governmental/bureaucratic machine. Overall it is a dramatic, taut, touching film which, while lacking a greater aesthetic and narrative vigor, as well as a greater degree of involvement, knows how to move effectively within the limits of the conventions between civil commitment, political denunciation, spectacular sequences and introspection psychological. Imperfect perhaps, but painful and necessary for the collective memory.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/02/23

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Synopsis

On Aug. 12, 2000, explosions aboard the Russian submarine Kursk cause it to sink during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, leaving 23 survivors trapped below on the ocean floor. For the next seven days, members of a rescue team frantically work to reach the men before their dwindling oxygen supply runs out.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Producer: Ariel Zeitoun
Screenwriter: Robert Rodat
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: EuropaCorp, Saban Films, Belga Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Disturbing Images|Brief Strong Language|Intense Disaster-Related Peril)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 21, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 21, 2019
Runtime: 1h 57m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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