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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60TheWrapBen CrollTheWrapBen CrollThough he finds little room for subtlety and even less interest in complex moral shadings, director Edoardo De Angelis can still ably wring tension from this brave, if foolhardy, mission, spinning his camera around ever-cramped quarters as the two crews, enemies-turned-shipmates, navigate uncharted terrain.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerWhile De Angelis knows how to create visceral action and moments of intensity, he’s incapable of the slightest hint of subtlety.
- 50Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallComandante is a film designed to make Italians feel good about being Italian – about pasta, sentimental songs and strongly demarcated gender roles – while also telling them how to be good Italians – chiefly by saving people at sea, not blindly following orders and getting on with other Italians whose dialects they don’t understand.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIf the characters, apart from Salvatore, had been more developed, there might be more drama to it, but Comandante, in its honorable and slightly gloomy way, has been conceived as the delivery system for a humanitarian message.
- 40The GuardianCatherine BrayThe GuardianCatherine BrayDe Angelis offers some muscular film-making, with decent action sequences.
- 40The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinIt offers a selection of sweaty, string-vesty, bulgy-bare-armsy scenes from the life of the real-life submarine commander Salvatore Todaro, played here by Pierfranceso Favino. It isn’t dreadful.