Men Of Honor

Originally, Men of Honour was simply called Navy Diver and no doubt all involved held high hopes that it would be an award-winning biopic. Unfortunately, Carl Brashear's life as the first African-American Master Diver went through that vaguely distasteful contemporary Hollywood Marketing makeover and the result is not quite so worthy of its subject and intentions. The film's hopelessly clichéd tagline reads, "History is made by those who break the rules"; the direction is shot through with sunsets 'n' slow-mo; and the script is peppered with foreshadowing dialogue ("don't end up like me son").

The plot devices follow a predictable arc: family poverty, a swiftly sweet romance, a shock accident, court hearing and, naturally, a grisly antagonist. It's with the last of these that the movie comes to life. We may have seen DeNiro spit nails countless times before, but his saltily intractable Master Chief is a terrific screen creation. Next to him, Cuba Gooding Jr really does shine as the endlessly persecuted Brashear. All-too brief cameos from Charlise Theron and Michael Rapaport lend sparkle too. But the film's message about how social attitudes toward race have changed is lost in a murky haze of Hollywoodisation. As one character declares, "some things just don't mix".

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RECODE RiPPER...: redthormCHD
RELEASE DATE....: 08/14/2008
THEATRE DATE....: 11/10/2000
GENRE...........: Biography / Drama
SOURCE TYPE.....: Blu-ray
ViDEO BiTRATE...: x264 r912 L4.1 4404Kbps
RESOLUTiON......: 1280 x 544
ASPECT RATiO....: 2.35 : 1
FRAME RATE......: 23.976 fps
RUNTiME.........: 129 mins
AUDiO BiTRATE...: AC3448kbps
LANGUAGE........: English
SUBTiTLES.......: Chinese/English
FilE SiZE.......: 4,579,762 KB
iMDB URL........: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203019/
iMDB RATiNG.....: 6.7/10 (21,980 votes)