Men of Honor (Blu-ray)
History is made by those who break the rules.
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Men of Honor
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 6, 2015
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro & Cuba Gooding Jr. | |
Performer: | Charlize Theron, Michael Rapaport, Powers Boothe, Hal Holbrook & David Keith | |
Directed by | George Tillman, Jr. | |
Edited by | John Carter | |
Screenwriting by | Scott Marshall Smith | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Produced by | Robert Teitel & Bill Badalato | |
Director of Photography: | Anthony B. Richmond & Anthony Richmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
De Niro's theatrics detract from the rest of the cast's subtleties and ultimately reduce an entertaining popcorn flick to a mere endurance test.
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BBC.com
...Gooding Jr. is effortlessly appealing as Brashear and you'll root for him to succeed....Very noble...
Total Film
Rating: C --
inspirational message plays well to mainstream audiences
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Brashear is all sheer determination and nothing else, displaying none of the vulnerability that would make him into a believable human being.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The decision to shift some of the attention to De Niro's character...dilutes the power of Brashear's fascinating life story.
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Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Rating: C- --
Strangled with formula.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
...Cuba Gooding Jr. [gets to] flex both physical and acting muscles for once....De Niro cagily crafts Sunday, a composite character, into a memorable and complex creation...
USA Today
Product Description:
An heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in George Tillman, Jr.'s docudrama MEN OF HONOR, based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver. The film employs the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl Brashear (played with noble grace by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is the son of a degraded Southern sharecropper. Determined to succeed in the vocation he believes he was born for, Brashear enlists in the navy. Once there, however, the determined young man finds his dream inaccessible--thwarted by the forces of institutional and personal racism. When, after a long and difficult struggle, he is finally allowed into diving school, he finds himself under the authority of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a former master diver whose injured lung has left him permanently above water. Sunday becomes simultaneously Brashear's most vicious adversary and most loyal supporter, motivating him to succeed. The story that follows is a highly emotional wave of ups and downs: Brashear overcomes one barrier only to be met by the next, even larger one. MEN OF HONOR is at times heartbreaking and painful to watch, but the triumphant ending makes for a deeply satisfying payoff.