A great blast from the past!
In a time of Russian aggression (really? would that ever happen) a nuclear submarine is given orders to launch a nuclear attack... but an interrupted message might be negating that... and that is the set up of one hell of a tense battle between "The Captain Is Always Right" and "The XO Is Trying To Not Go To War". As they say at the end, it's a hell of a mess, on the one hand, full orders, on the other, the threat of war.
According to IMDB this was a Soviet incident, not an American one, but Hollywood ain't gonna tell Soviet stories... but this is a damn well written movie (yes, with punch up by Tarantino) and Washington and Hackman give masterful performances. And hey, that's one Viggo Mortensen, I wonder if he'll go on to do anything else? And smoking... there is lots of smoking...
Of course Tony Scott is the director, who recently passed, bringing this movie back to mind. And while rewatching it... the music really stood out to me too. Such good soundtracks on movies back then. Speaking of which...
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