Phantom below - Sottomarino fantasma

Personally, I loved it. I'm sorry for the others that felt it was so bad. My husband and I have watched it several times.

I think Adrian Paul did an excellent job. He's a very good actor in all his films. The other's were pretty good too, but maybe one out of the bunch could have been better.

But other than that, we were thoroughly entertained. I'm sure there are things that stand out to men who have been on subs before that were totally unbelievable. I can understand that. I show horses and almost every horse movie I sit there and pick out what's unrealistic. It's happens with all movies.

It just shows that what's good for one person, might be bad for another. I hated Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction - go figure.

When his XO i(and lover) is killed following a mysterious naval action off the coast of North Korea, "Cdr. Habley" (Adrian Paul) is relieved of command of his hunter-killer submarine. Thing is, his bosses do think that something is amiss in these waters, so engage duplicitous and ambitious "Lt. Cdr. Barker" (Matthew St. Patrick) to entice "Habley" back, despite his golfing leave. Back in the murky waters, they discover that another allied submarine has been sunk with all hands but some manoeuvring onboard sees our captain locked in his cabin and his deputy running a somewhat disgruntled crew into what is increasingly looking like the jaws of disaster. Can "Habley" regain control of his ship and save the lives of his crew from the unknown threat lurking in the seas? It's a sort of "Crimson Tide" (1995) meets "Hunt for Red October" (1990) - I'm sure a few of the shots were borrowed from the latter film - only without any jeopardy or intrigue. The acting and writing are as bad as each other and it's all augmented by mediocre visual effects and a sort of faux-military style of trumpeted score that really adds up to a television movie for consumption at 3am when you've lost the remote. The idea isn't terrible, the execution, however... Avoid, sorry.

The worse thing about this movie is why can't the people in Hollywood get the US Navy rating structure correct. The CO of the boat had both Silver Oak leafs (which stands for Commander) on his uniform and Shoulder boards with two 1/2" gold stripes and one 1/4" gold stripe (which stands for LCDR). The COB had LT bars on for an officer but he is the Commands Master Chief Petty Officer. There were many other discrepancies like this in the movie. The acting was decent. Overall it was an okay movie.

Clearly, they had no technical advisor on this film. The ONLY thing that is in any way accurate is the battle lantern you see in an occasional shot.

Although I served 24 years, on 4 ships and 1 submarine, I am no expert, but they could have paid me a meager salary to at least make the uniforms right.

There are far too many errors and inaccuracies in this film to list here. Some of the most glaring are the incorrect and out and out wrong mixture of uniform items which do not match rank. It is like they had a grab bag of uniform items and told the cast to go "put something on" in the hope they might get it right. They didn't. The fact that submarines don't move that way is easy to ignore, since only a submariner would know.

Clearly one of the worst Submarine (or even Navy) films ever made. A little (technical) effort can go a long way.

Just terrible. All of it. Actors, set, underwater action scenes, script, screenplay, characterisation.

Little better than one of those low budget made for cable tv mid week housewife tv movies of the 1970s & 1980s.

Just terrible. All of it. Actors, set, underwater action scenes, script, screenplay, characterisation.

Little better than one of those low budget made for cable tv mid week housewife tv movies of the 1970s & 1980s.

Just terrible. All of it. Actors, set, underwater action scenes, script, screenplay, characterisation.

Little better than one of those low budget made for cable tv mid week housewife tv movies of the 1970s & 1980s.