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BrianSez's Review
Summary - Great 4.0
Nicolas Cage stars in the remarkable story of Captain Charles Butler McVay, who commanded the USS Indianapolis during WWII in the Pacific. The Indianapolis was known for its final mission of secretly delivering components of the atomic bomb to Tinian. On its way to Guam it was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine.
The movie touches all the right buttons: Firstly, A dramatic story of survival. Of 1196 sailors, 300 went down with the ship, of the 896 that were at sea, only 300 survived the plight of exposure and the terrifying ordeal of being shark bait. Secondly, A dramatic story of ineptitude and dramatic spectacle of McVay’s court martial after the war. In the end, the memory was difficult to live with.