THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER [1990] review

I had a hard time choosing a movie to watch tonight. Nothing in my collection was meeting my demand for a semi-famous movie from the 80’s or perhaps early 90’s. Then I thought of the iTunes movie store. I literally browsed every single title they have available, and not counting the movies I had already seen, about 95% of the rest was total junk. Still, I made my first ever movie purchase from iTunes settling for THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, which managed to meet what I was looking for. Alec Baldwin has long been one of my favorite actors. And I really like the technical aspect of the film, getting to learn how subs are operated and some new lingo. I was impressed with the ingenuity of all the sub crews, both American and Russian.

The special effects for the most part were impressive and stood up some 17 years later, however, at the end there was a lot of obvious blue screen usage that was a bit jarring. All the sub effects were great though.

Technically, there wasn’t much action in the film, but there always seemed to be constant tension. Good performances all around no doubt helped the bare bones script and the sub action provided the rest.

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