Hunter Killer Review: 3 Ups & 5 Downs

2. It Takes Itself Way Too Seriously

A movie this fundamentally daft really needs to embrace its thorough silliness and just have some fun with it, but sadly Hunter Killer is a mostly self-serious, po-faced film without the necessary self-awareness to succeed.

The absurd dialogue and ridiculous political machinations are fired through with a total somber sincerity, which in turn proves unintentionally amusing.

It is effectively a cornball Hollywood action flick that doesn't want to admit it's such, and instead attempts to present itself as a legitimately plausible and stately film.

The problem clearly rests mostly with the humourless script and the cast's fairly on-the-level treatment of it, but one suspects with a more experienced director than no-namer Donovan Marsh, it could've turned out a little more fun and free-wheeling.