I couldn't tell what the film was about from the trailers, and said that to the people I went with--I cast my vote for going to see "Mystic River" and lost. Having Seen the film, I can now state with certainty I haven't a clue as to what this film is about. It is a plotless behemoth, which bored me senseless. And I really enjoyed both men in "A Beautiful Mind" too, otherwise I'd never have gone along for the ride.

This film may be very authentic in navy history detail, but the story is so bad, the earnest arrogance and self-righteous bastardness of the characters so phony, that I can also honestly say this film had all the emotional and intellectual truth of 40s war propaganda films, which is what it felt like to me. If John Wayne had ever made a film about being a swash buckling British sea captain, this would have been the movie for him.