Analytical review of the plot, setting, theme, and structure of the Sean Connery film, and links to similar movies.

Review from a Christian perspective by Tim Emmerich.

"...more fun by suggesting how easily men can go wrong, how false assumptions can seem seductive and how enormous consequences can sometimes hang by slender threads." Review by Roger Ebert. [Chicago Sun-Times]

"A clever game of cat-and-mouse between two men on opposite sides of an ideological war who turn out to have more in common..." [Flick Filosopher]

"If you'll pardon the pun, there's not much depth to this tale of submarines chasing each other..." By Chris Hicks. [Deseret News] (March 02, 1990)

"With its bad, treacherous Soviets on the one side, its freedom-loving Americans on the other, and an indeterminate number of good Russian defectors in between..." By Desson Howe. [Washington Post] (March 02, 1990)

"A leviathan relic of an age that no longer exists." By Hal Hinson. [Washington Post] (March 02, 1990)