USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage is supposed to be an adaptation about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis after delivering the atomic bombs that are to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What it turned out to be was a laughable representation of a catastrophic event where nearly 1200 sailors lost their lives.
The script is extremely choppy, and really gives no background on any of the principals. The dialogue is forced and very unnatural, and the language is not accurate for the WWII era. It's an elementary attempt at a story that could have been monumental.
Cinematography...WTF is that!? Scenes aboard ship are laughable and the exterior shots, which are CGI, look like they came out of a video game. Once the crew is in the water, it's basically a cross between Titanic and Sharknado...with really bad CGI.
I have seen a few reviews saying that the proper shark species weren't used. This isn't really relevant to the story, but this is one part that the movie gets right. Great Whites, Mako, Blue Sharks, and various reef sharks are all found in that part of the world and most make an appearance in this film.
Now the Nauseating part...the love story. It's cliché, overdone, and completely predictable.
I've seen a couple comments about the racial tension being inaccurate, but this is another part of the movie that is close, but doesn't go far enough. You have to remember this story takes place in 1945, before the civil rights movement, and stories of sailors banding together, regardless of race is not cliché...it actually happened. I heard several stories about this exact subject from my Grandfather, who was a helmsman aboard in a navy ship during WWII.
Overall, I would recommend watching a History Channel documentary rather than wasting two hours watching this terrible movie.
The script is extremely choppy, and really gives no background on any of the principals. The dialogue is forced and very unnatural, and the language is not accurate for the WWII era. It's an elementary attempt at a story that could have been monumental.
Cinematography...WTF is that!? Scenes aboard ship are laughable and the exterior shots, which are CGI, look like they came out of a video game. Once the crew is in the water, it's basically a cross between Titanic and Sharknado...with really bad CGI.
I have seen a few reviews saying that the proper shark species weren't used. This isn't really relevant to the story, but this is one part that the movie gets right. Great Whites, Mako, Blue Sharks, and various reef sharks are all found in that part of the world and most make an appearance in this film.
Now the Nauseating part...the love story. It's cliché, overdone, and completely predictable.
I've seen a couple comments about the racial tension being inaccurate, but this is another part of the movie that is close, but doesn't go far enough. You have to remember this story takes place in 1945, before the civil rights movement, and stories of sailors banding together, regardless of race is not cliché...it actually happened. I heard several stories about this exact subject from my Grandfather, who was a helmsman aboard in a navy ship during WWII.
Overall, I would recommend watching a History Channel documentary rather than wasting two hours watching this terrible movie.