One of the most overt pieces of propaganda I've ever seen.
Not sure why Gerard Butler keeps putting himself in movies that glorify the ideals of Americanism. This one specifically has a very dignified portrayal of the US Military, with the only critical representations being one war-mongering bureaucrat and a few anti-russian sailors. There is no depiction of systemic problems with the military like the ones we know of from whistleblowers. And there is definitely not a single person who advocates for peace with Russia, the film opens on a spy mission in the Arctic where an American submarine is stalking a Russian one in the Russian arctic for reasons not deemed important enough to explain. We get three very noble and respectable military leaders all resolving the situation that those pesky Russians couldn't on their own.
All of that without tackling the absurdity of the plot.
For some reason there is a submarine battle right before there is a Russian coup d'etat. And one team of Navy SEALs settles the coup aspect while a random guy is promoted to captain a submarine that is deployed to find the first submarine that was covertly stalking a Russian submarine in the Russian Arctic. They connect the two coincidences and have the submarine win the battle then go save the SEALs and stop the coup.
It has American supremacy-savior vibes all over it all the way through in a way that is so overt and gross to me that I was distracted from the fact that it is actually a competently made film.
I wish I wasn't so aware of propaganda so I could enjoy films like these like my dad does. But I also wish more people were more aware of the military propaganda so less of it is made.
Not sure why Gerard Butler keeps putting himself in movies that glorify the ideals of Americanism. This one specifically has a very dignified portrayal of the US Military, with the only critical representations being one war-mongering bureaucrat and a few anti-russian sailors. There is no depiction of systemic problems with the military like the ones we know of from whistleblowers. And there is definitely not a single person who advocates for peace with Russia, the film opens on a spy mission in the Arctic where an American submarine is stalking a Russian one in the Russian arctic for reasons not deemed important enough to explain. We get three very noble and respectable military leaders all resolving the situation that those pesky Russians couldn't on their own.
All of that without tackling the absurdity of the plot.
For some reason there is a submarine battle right before there is a Russian coup d'etat. And one team of Navy SEALs settles the coup aspect while a random guy is promoted to captain a submarine that is deployed to find the first submarine that was covertly stalking a Russian submarine in the Russian Arctic. They connect the two coincidences and have the submarine win the battle then go save the SEALs and stop the coup.
It has American supremacy-savior vibes all over it all the way through in a way that is so overt and gross to me that I was distracted from the fact that it is actually a competently made film.
I wish I wasn't so aware of propaganda so I could enjoy films like these like my dad does. But I also wish more people were more aware of the military propaganda so less of it is made.