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Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro
  • Summary: Inspired by the life of Carl Brashear (Gooding, Jr.). The setting of his journey is the little known and dangerous world of deep-sea diving in the U.S. Navy of the 1950s and 60s. (20th Century Fox Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 30
  2. Negative: 2 out of 30
  1. 88
    In-depth performances by De Niro and Gooding Jr. provide the oxygen for this extremely shipshape biopic.
  2. 80
    Passes muster as an old-style biopic with its heart in the right place. There won't be a dry eye in the house.
  3. 60
    Sunk by its own melodramatic falseness, and it stands as a well-meaning yet lacking tribute to a courageous man.
  4. 30
    The filmmakers at once coarsen and dilute a fascinating life into a lumpy puddle of punishing inspirational hokum.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10

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