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Crimson Tide [Blu-ray]

Denzel Washington (Actor), Gene Hackman (Actor), Tony Scott (Director) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 5,213 ratings
IMDb7.3/10.0
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Genre Action/Adventure
Format Subtitled, Color, Anamorphic, Blu-ray, Widescreen, Dolby
Contributor Lucas Foster, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven, Viggo Mortensen, George Dzundza, Tony Scott, James Gandolfini See more
Language English, French
Runtime 1 hour and 56 minutes

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Superstars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman face off in the intense action-thriller CRIMSON TIDE, now on Blu-ray Disc(R). Viggo Mortensen and James Gandolfini also star as the "full-throttle tension" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) builds relentlessly in this pulse-pounding format! Amidst a global crisis, the USS ALABAMA is ordered to launch its nuclear missiles -- signaling the start of World War III! And when the sub's commander and his executive officer clash over the validity of their orders, an epic struggle for control erupts under the sea. Watch every explosive frame in spectacular 1080p, while 5.1 48 kHz, 16-bit uncompressed audio blows you away. See, hear and feel the "Tide" rage through the power of Blu-ray(TM) High Definition!

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You can almost hear the studio pitch meeting echoing throughout Crimson Tide like the sonar on the soundtrack: "It's The Cain Mutiny on a nuclear submarine!" When radio communications problems aboard the USS Alabama prevent the sub from receiving its orders clearly during a tense confrontation with Russian warships, Navy officer Denzel Washington faces a huge ethical dilemma: countermand the orders of legendary Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) to fire nuclear missiles, or follow his command and risk launching an unprovoked nuclear war. It's really an actors' picture, and the fun is in the fireworks between Washington and Hackman, each of whose characters articulates solid reasoning behind his decision. There are no easy villains, and there's no easy way to tell right from wrong--that's what makes the nuclear stakes so terrifying. Director Tony Scott (who directed Quentin Tarantino's True Romance script) called in Tarantino to punch up the dialogue, which is why, for example, the sailors talk about Silver Surfer comic books. The digital video disc is in anamorphic widescreen; the sonorous underwater rumblings on the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack will provide you with a good opportunity to show off your system's bass response. --Jim Emerson

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.25 x 0.3 inches; 1.6 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 05365500
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Tony Scott
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Color, Anamorphic, Blu-ray, Widescreen, Dolby
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Lucas Foster
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000YKYT6M
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 5,213 ratings

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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Hollywood Pictures should sell the distribution rights to Warner or Universal so we can get a decent Anamorphic transfer.This is a title, along with many Paramount and other titles that desparitely need Anamorphic transfers. A modern HDMI DVD upscaler is not compatible with non-anamorphic titles. Non-anamorphic titles contort the screen to the point where black bars fill 80% of the screen, leaving only a small, unviewable slit to which the Movie shows. Miramax chose to give rights to Echo Bridge, which distributes the films in 6/8/10 packs with less than stellar quality, almost VHS quality. It makes your brand look bad, Miramax.It's not hard to do, a simple transfer of the HD copy to DVD without any enhancements and at a high 8500 bit rate would provide a very high quality viewing experience (on an HDMI DVD Upscaler) that rivals even Sony's Superbit DVDs. Even a home viewer could do it with an HD copy of the Film and a program like DeVeDe (Linux). It's dead simple and would cost them (Paramount etc) pennies to do. It would also rival the quality of modern DVD quality. I know this since we've done it with local production companies for their publications, legally of course with their material and for their distribution.It's 2014 , more than 70% of the movie watching peoples still choose to do so on DVD. Blu-ray is too consumer unfriendly and has failed to catch hold after 9 years with it's strict DRM and Internet requirements. I might add that various Virus and Malware have been reported to be infecting these Blu-ray players so it's only a matter of time before that format implodes. Digital downloads are the next likely choice, except you don't actually own the movie you pay for and it could disappear at any time. We've seen this happen with Cloud services disappearing and causing people to lose their belongings.
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Ryan Summers
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2024
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This has always been a top 3 movie choice of mine. I had to purchase it because I am one that likes to watch certain movies more than once. Denzel and Hackman are great in this tense movie about old school ways of a seasoned Captain and the new generation of the XO. The cast is a great choice for this movie making for a real tense situation aboard a nuclear sub. Worth watching and even buying
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Laurence Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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Classic must see movie
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Cowboy
5.0 out of 5 stars Always a thriller
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
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Not close to Navy protocols but excellent nonetheless.
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Avid book reader
5.0 out of 5 stars This movie is crimson
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2003
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Crimson Tide is a high adrenaline drama, with a solid cast, and a terrific and engaging plot. Probably the best submarine movie since Hunt for the Red October, Crimson Tide does everything it can to create instant suspense and interest in this movie and it succeeds. The movie stars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, who play off each other brilliantly.
Washington plays Hunter, the Executive Officer (Exo) of the submarine U.S.S. Alabama. Hunter is the play it straight, humble but serious, follow the rules kind of officer. Hunter follows his conscience and what he knows is right, and is not easily persuaded. This is the trademark character of almost every character Washington plays, with the exception of his role in Training Day.
Hackman plays Capt. Ramsey, the hard-nosed, bull-headed, confrontational captain of the very same submarine. Ramsey doesn't believe in advice or even his conscience, just his orders and making no exceptions. Hackman, whose personna often comes across as arrogant and head strong, is a the exact kind of actor one would want for this part.
As noticed, Ramsey and Hunter are almost opposites, which leads us to the conflict of characters. It's analogy can be described as hot air and cold air mixing...and one should know what that forms. This is picked up very early in the film, when Ramsey is interviewing Hunter to be his next Exo.
This was the signal that Ramsey is not easily impressed nor does he truly think highly of Hunter. A problem that does not go away throughout the film.
The plot is a little complicated, but it can be summarized. Basically, it's about Russian rebels who seize Russian warheads. These rebels then begin making threats towards America and Japan. Enter the US Navy, deploying it's nuke subs all across the world to be prepared to launch if needed. The U.S.S. Alabama is among them.
I think this is a terrific plot and I think the movie did an admirable job in attempting to make it appear real or quite very possible. They did this by including live footage (obviously from other wars), interviews with the madman or leader of the rebels, and creating a series of events that quite possibly could occur. I was really impressed with how they did all this in the beginning of the movie, so we all got a sense of what the movie was going to be about.
Unfortunately, I'm not all that impressed with some of the criticism given to this film from fellow reviewers. The biggest gripe is that this film does not portray submariners accurately, that the way they acted is not possible and it's a slap in the face to our Navy. Look, I have no doubt that there are inaccuracies in how Navy personel are "supposed" to act or how submarine life persists. But that doesn't mean it's a slap. It just means it isn't portrayed accurately.
Not to mention, this criticism is over-blown and it isn't what the movie is about. I think people who get all upset over this film, as far as the portrayal of submariners, need to get a grip. This film is about two things that not even the US Navy is immune to: human judgment and human error. In order for that concept to be applied in this sense, you can't have all the submariners acting all perfect and do nothing wrong and create no conflicts on board. This is a drama. That stuff must occur otherwise it's a boring movie. So wake up, get off your high horse, and just enjoy the movie. The movie is about a broader scope than the portrayal of our Navy. The movie is about the possible break down of our system, the break down of officers, and the forever curse of human misjudgment.
This film will make you think, and that's what I like about it. You're entertained and you think about this movie during and after you see it. This movie was made to create drama at the ultimate expense in the worst of times. So if you want to see what I consider the best submarine movie out there, go see Crimson Tide.
Grade: A-
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Thomas W Baird
4.0 out of 5 stars Crimson Tide review.
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2021
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The XO was right The Captain was wrong he needed to confirm that last message that got cut off. For him not confirm it was reckless and incompetent. Its was about a real nuclear launch at a foreign nation. That would of most likely caused a nuclear holocaust. The XO was right in what he did. Confirm the complete EMO message As authentic if not do not launch. They were not the only ships with nukes on it, there was back up. It was not all on that sub. The ship for sure needed to have a radio back up. It was all on the Radio being fixed at the end? Or they would of launched without the confirmation? Didn't they have abort capability for missiles that were in the air back then? Good movie. The message from the movie is that the President will only have the capability to launch nukes.. I hope He or She has a good working radio to confirm the need to launch before launching. Use MOAB'S instead of nukes. Non nuclear bombs are not the end of the world types of bombs .Non-nuclear bombs is better no radiation.
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Siskel Ebertson
5.0 out of 5 stars Little ducks, there's trouble in Russia...
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015
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Yes little ducks, that's a line from one of the opening shots of the movie when Gene Hackman who plays Captain Frank Ramsey of the USS ALABAMA nuclear missile sub is addressing the crew before they start their mission. The mission is to set sail and be on the ready to launch their nuclear payload toward Russia if worse comes to worse and the rebel force that suddenly took control of several russian subs and a russian nuke base tries to launch their missiles against America. This movie was released in 1995, had a 53 million dollar estimated budget and Tony Scott was the director. Who the heck's Tony Scott????? He was/is the brother of Ridley Scott who did a little space movie called Alien. I say was because he's no longer with us (suicide, 2012). Tony also did another fairly popular movie you might know called Top Gun, another military themed movie that made the American Navy and their fighter pilots look the badazzes that they are (again going up against the russians). In this movie you have Denzel Washington playing Lt. Commander Ron Hunter the Alabama's new XO (executive officer) who's well educated but relatively inexperienced in actual combat as compared to Gene Hackman's character Captain Frank Ramsey the old school, self made, well seasoned boats commander who's seen it all done it all. Another notable performance came from a little known actor who became America's favorite mobster hitman Tony Soprano was delivered by James Gandolfini (passed away in 2013, heart attack). Viggo Mortensen plays Lt. Peter 'weps' Ince who is in charge of weapons launch/control. He gets tugged between Denzel and Gene's characters as they fight each other for control. Control goes back and fourth between the two with Ramsey being relieved of command by Hunter then Hunter being ousted by Ramsey. It all boils down to the radio man vossler being able to fix the radio and get the vital EAM so they can find out if Ramsey was right and they should've launched or if Hunter was right and the launch called off. The more I watch this movie the more interesting the story line actually becomes to me. Think about it, you have the old captain hellbent on following his orders and launching his nukes and you have the younger officer saying wait a minute, we should check this out every way from sunday before we launch. The principal actors all deliver good performances, some of the newbies are borderline so so but still in the tollerable range. I wasn't left with a feeling of "oh my lord why did I buy this PIECE OF CR*P" . Viggo went on to do the Lord of the Rings trilogy, his career has more or less been on a low simmer since then. This dvd has captions, an on the set of clip and a making of featurette, no director commentary, the blu-ray is crisp and clean and will provide nice viewing and if you don't like my review please keep it to yourself cause I have a fragile ego. So little ducks my advice to you is get this movie and a big greasy tub of popcorn, plop down in front of the seventy inch widescreen and let Gene and Denzel take you into the amazing, fantastic world of underwater politics on a nuclear sub.
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Jean-Sebatien Leveille
5.0 out of 5 stars Great wonderful movie of the 90’s !
Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2023
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Awesome film with great scenes of action and adventures !
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Jose M. Quiroz Ruvalcaba
5.0 out of 5 stars Producto en buen estado y buen tiempo de entrega
Reviewed in Mexico on August 3, 2022
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Producto en buen estado y buen tiempo de entrega
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D J Jackson: Passionate about Film.
5.0 out of 5 stars A BRILLIANT, TENSE, EXCITING FILM ~ BUT SLIGHTLY ‘MANUFACTURED’ BY DISNEY?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2024
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This is a review of the 1995 submarine action thriller, ‘Crimson Tide’. We watched it on the 2007 All Region Blu-ray from Walt Disney Studios. It plays in 1.78:1, 1080p HD, and Dolby Digital 5.1, and both looks and sounds superb. There is a large selection of extras.

In the early 1990s, ‘Hollywood Pictures’, part of the Disney empire, planned to make a movie set on a nuclear submarine. The ‘management team’ ~ the producers, the film’s director (Brit Tony Scott), the story writer (expert naval novelist, Richard Henrick), the screenwriter (Michael Schiffer) ~ all spent a day, together with the company’s Director of Productions, Ricardo Mestres, on board an American Trident Nuclear submarine, the USS ‘Florida’. The Navy was generous and hospitable, allowing the team to film and document many of the routine and operational sequences involved with running the sub. The proposed storyline involved an onboard computer malfunctioning, going rogue, and initiating a ballistic missile launch. The US Navy was adamant that such an eventuality was impossible; they set out to convince Mestres and his team.

It worked ~ to a degree. A re-write changed the flaw from mechanical and technical, to human, operational and institutional. A disastrous potential launch remained key; the plot still required a hero to prevent it. The Navy was clearly appalled. Unlike many other effective naval films ~ ‘The Final Countdown’(1980), ‘The Hunt for Red October’(1990) for example ~ where the Navy gave the film-makers extensive access and assistance during filming, they provided neither. The moored sub was created, using a scrapped vessel, with props used to mock up the ‘sail’, (the conning tower), which had been dismantled! It also explains the oddity of scenes at the start and finish, filmed on board a French aircraft carrier ~ they were more forgiving than the Americans!

It is a massive pity that the film-makers so ruffled naval feathers, because the film is very, very good. The submarine, the set during the majority of the 116 minutes of non-stop action and jeopardy ~ is a real star. She is clearly huge, but responds beautifully and efficiently, and has amazing power and resilience. The film also succeeds in explaining, very cogently and coherently, the why and how of what such a scary entity is for. There is a debate, quite early on after the sub leaves port, in which the morality and theory of warfare is considered, and it should be learnt by heart, by every politician ever elected!

Inevitably, given the way the screenplay evolved, this is a film, not so much about the nuts, bolts and bombs of nuclear subs, but about the men who are in charge. Co-starring with USS ‘Alabama’, is Gene Hackman, playing Captain Frank Ramsey, and Denzil Washington, playing Ron Hunter, his No 2, the ‘XO’. They are chalk and cheese, the ‘by the book’, unbending, traditionalist, and the clever, forward-thinking new broom; the loner and the family man.

This could play out as somewhat hackneyed and predictable. In other hands, no doubt it would have been. But director Tony Scott uses his material very well, Tarantino was brought in to add “pop culture” spice to the dialogue, and Scott has two actors of tremendous skill playing the leads. Hackman’s long, glittering, career is laced with humourless, chilly men, just like Ramsey: Harry Caul in ‘The Conversation(1974); Bill Daggett in ‘Unforgiven’(1992); President Alan Richmond in ‘Absolute Power’(1997). He is superb here, very believable, and in many respects, correct. The film wants us to sympathise however, with Denzil Washington, the warrior who hates war, and Washington is also brilliant: measured, logical, reasonable. They are ably supported by a talented cast, but all are outshone by this battle of the giants, facing off for the future of mankind.

This is a tremendously exciting, stomach-churning movie, and we thoroughly enjoyed every tense, nail-biting moment. It is a 5 Starrer, for sure. But I do feel just a little manipulated, which is also sad.
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Tobias
5.0 out of 5 stars Genialer Film, genialer Soundtrack, großartige Schauspieler und tiefgründige Geschichte
Reviewed in Germany on February 3, 2024
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Der Film fühlt sich durch die Erzählweise teils wie ein Theaterstück an, allerdings meine ich dies keinesfalls negativ. Die Art wie der Film ein Ethisches Problem aufgreift und in der Spannung auf den Höhepunkt treibt sieht man nicht jeden Tag. Dazu noch der Soundtrack von Hans Zimmer und die Schauspielerische Leistung von Schauspielern wie Denzel Washington. Ein Film den man wirklich gesehen haben muss!
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タケッチ
5.0 out of 5 stars 潜水艦映画の中でも1，2、を争う大作
Reviewed in Japan on April 14, 2024
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米ソ冷戦の中でロシアの極右派の指導者が内戦を起こし核ミサイル基地を占拠し日本とアメリカに原爆を打ち込むと脅したためアメリカの原潜アラバマに出港命令が下されるのである艦長と副長（盲腸炎でいない）変りにハンター少佐が着任して出港する目的地に着くまでと着いた時のまでの艦長と副長の考え方の違いで核ミサイルの発射命令が下される時に反乱を起こし艦長と副長が対立するのである。大変緊迫した状態が描かれていて核戦争の恐ろしさを知る映画で戦争映画好きの人やあまり好きでない人にもぜひ見ていただきたい映画です。
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