Hunter Killer – UK Region

Deep under the Arctic Ocean, American submarine Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler) is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order. Captain Glass must now assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and sneak…

The week before Halloween is horror-movie season. But what could be scarier than the B-list action movies of Gerard Butler, which present us with a world where the lives of millions or even billions have been put in Gerard Butler’s hands? In Hunter Killer, our scowliest movie star plays a submarine captain who is, emphatically, not one of those highfalutin, Annapolis-educated, fancy-boy submarine captains. (Is this a stereotype? Are there stereotypes about submarine captains?) No, Butler’s Joe Glass is a salt-of-the-sea type, a man who lives, breathes, and, one imagines, eats submarines. He is introduced, with extreme sincerity, bowhunting CGI deer on the snowy slopes of the Scottish Highlands, before a helicopter swoops in to take him away to the USS Tampa Bay. The top-secret mission: penetrate the frigid Russian waters of the Barents Sea, find a missing submarine, rescue the Russian president from a military coup, avert global war.