Old-fashioned, dewy-eyed salute to the Navy's first "colored" deep-sea diver -- a Jackie Robinson story. To put it securely in that framework, we even hear a snippet of play-by-play from a Robinson game over the hero's homemade radio, a gift from his sharecropper father. Nice moment when the smashed radio turns up magically repaired by the racist officer who smashed it: it's tuned to a C&W station, and the hero has to re-tune it to his preferred jazz. Scary moment underwater with a Russian sub. Great old diving suits. And Cuba Gooding, Jr., plays the lead with his usual engaging uncool enthusiasm. Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis, Hal Holbrook; directed by George Tillman, Jr. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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