Phantom (2013)

PHANTOM  (2013)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Todd Robinson
    Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner,
    Lance Henriksen, Johnathon Schaech, Jason Beghe
A tense, old-style Cold War thriller starring Ed Harris as the captain of a Soviet sub and David Duchovny as a rogue KGB op who's out to start World War Three. Writer/ director Robinson doesn't waste much time cutting to the suspense, and you can check off the submarine-in-peril plot points as they occur, from the desperate maneuvers to avoid getting torpedoed to the rivet-popping dive below crush depth. Echoes of "Das Boot", "The Enemy Below" and "Run Silent Run Deep", but what "Phantom" lacks in originality, it makes up for in execution. There's something to be said for a movie that knows where it's going, knows how to get there, and with a workmanlike sense of focus, delivers the white-knuckle goods.