Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

DigitalRevenantX7 Jake Fuller, a decorated former Navy SEAL who lost his brother on a mission seven years before & has since refused to use a weapon, instead becoming a medical officer, is sent on a goodwill mission onboard a Russian nuclear submarine, the Odessa. But the Odessa has been hijacked by terrorists planning to create a new Soviet Union by launching the Hailstorm – an experimental nuclear cluster bomb that is highly unstable – onto Russian cities so that the Russian military will reclaim the former Soviet states in retaliation. Fuller is drugged & locked into a room while the terrorists make their way to Syria. But Fuller quickly recovers, aided by his nurse Swain, who has a secret mission of her own, planning to counterattack & kill the terrorists.It is interesting what happens in the real world while reviewing a film. The premise of Counter Measures – terrorists plan to force the Russian military into taking over former satellite states in retaliation for a perceived threat – has become somewhat accurate to an alarming degree. But thankfully no nuclear bombs have been used. The film was released in 1998 – a good decade & a half before what happened in Eastern Ukraine, where rebels determined to prevent the Ukraine joining the EU embarked on a terrorist campaign in order to 'liberate' their towns by illegal means. This little war, bolstered by the Russian annexation of Crimea (an expected move since the region has Russian warships stationed there), became infamous when the rebels, using a Russian-made & supplied surface to air missile, shot down a civilian jetliner over their skies, killing all on board. Russian complicity in this mess is obvious.Anyway, back to the film, Counter Measures (known in some places as Crash Dive 2) is a card-carrying member of the Royal Oaks studio & is directed by the veteran director Fred Olen Ray (who uses a pseudonym here for some reason). As far as action films go, the film is a bit of a disappointment due to the rather poor writing skills of Steve Latshaw, one of Jim Wynorski's hatchetmen writers & somebody who clearly doesn't do any fact-checking when it comes to writing his scripts. Everywhere you look, there are mistakes – the Navy SEALs don't use Kalashnikov assault rifles as part of their kit; the Russian Navy won't deploy a submarine with a weapon that hasn't been properly tested on board in case of disaster; & the US Navy's officers won't go out of their way to confront somebody who has been a decorated SEAL, even if he is indeed a 'conscientious objector'. And one thing I thought was kind of silly was the idea of Russian terrorists using a Nazi-made nerve agent to kill their victims – wouldn't it be better to use Russian-made nerve gas instead in order to disguise the hijacking? With Latshaw's writing skills factored in, Counter Measures is not terribly innovative in any way & the action scenes sometimes go to absurd lengths – key part being the scene where Dudikoff takes on a pistol-armed terrorist (played by Jason Voorhees himself – Kane Hodder), only to shoot himself in the leg, as well as Alexander Keith's semi-pathetic attempts to fight her assailants despite being shot twice & badly beaten. The story's twists are so predictable that you'll see them coming a kilometre away in advance & the final climax is a little on the implausible side.If I had to make a recommendation, it would be to try to find the cheapest copy of Counter Measures around, watch it then turn the DVD into a novelty coaster if you're not satisfied with it. I sure did – and at $2 a disc, it didn't break the bank.

sitisapura Story of an ex-Navy Seal who is now a combat medical officer assigned to a state of the art Russian sub with a nurse. This is to answer a call for help set off by a dying member of the original crew. The sub has been overtaken by terrorists who are bent on destruction. So we see the duo try and gain control back. And this happens with the fear of the US Naval Forces is about to unleashing everything it has got on the terrorist sub to prevent it from launching its arsenal. Be careful of the early explicit sexual scene in the first quarter of the movie. A couple of unexplained scenes towards the end. Watch it when you have the time. Nothing to miss out even if you let the show run while you go get yourself a cup of coffee: slow moving.

avalon-2 I found it on DVD, cheap, so I wasn't expecting much. I wasn't dissappointed, either. Character development is choppy, editing is bad, Russian-spy plot is undeveloped and confusing. Why the final suicide? We never know! Stiff acting by some bit parts, but some actors did well in their small roles, particularly the late-repenting missle-man/terrorist. What's up with the blond Ensn/Lt. ? She takes orders, she takes vodka, she takes a man's name in the credits? I'd like to discuss this aspect with someone in the industry. Stimulating opening love scene, for both genders, but downhill from there. Haven't seen Crash Dive 1; was the first battle scene brought forward from that movie? Served only to fog the c.o. aspect of the star.

Angus I don't know if there's an aphorism to put to this type of movie, but there should be, because this flick reminds me a lot of Steel Sharks. And the similarities are unexpected. Both movies are set on subs, both movies involve terrorists (of a sort), both movies are very cheaply done, and critically unrealistic. What've those links got to do with each other? You've got underwater listening devices that can identify screws among wreckage, an American submarine commander who has way less battle-sense than his Russian counterpart, and bad guys with ridiculously unrealistic, paranoid objectives. Anyone in any military service anywhere in the world could probably expand vastly on that list. They'd probably start with: instruments that do not register with military accuracy, but icons and labels that are marketed to American civilians.