Plot
‘Ed Harris’ plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group (led by David Duchovny) bent on seizing control of the ship’s nuclear missile. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Harris discovers he’s been chosen for this mission in the belief he would fail. ‘Phantom’ is a suspense submarine thriller about extraordinary men facing impossible choices.
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Genre: Thriller
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- 75ReelViews - by James Berardinelli
Much of what's contained in Phantom is at best speculative and at worst completely made-up. But, regardless of the accuracy, it makes for compelling viewing. Phantom is one of the best films of a lousy early 2013 release roster. ...read more - 50Chicago Sun-Times - by Richard Roeper
Ed Harris in Phantom is like Steve Carlton with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1972 — delivering a wall-to-wall, amazing performance that's lost in a sea of dreadfulness. ...read more - 50
- 50New York Post - by Lou Lumenick
Todd Robinson’s Phantom gives us a couple of things we haven’t seen in a while: the great Ed Harris and a Cold War submarine thriller. It’s not something you want to plunk down $12 for, but just diverting enough to check out when it arrives on Netflix Instant. ...read more - 50USA Today - by Claudia Puig
The combination of tight close-ups and jarring camera work might require a dose of Dramamine. Better yet, give this movie a wide berth and check out a superb film set in a submarine, the 1981 classic "Das Boot." ...read more - 50Portland Oregonian - by Stephen Whitty
In the end, The Phantom remains mediocre, with flat cinematography and crude dialogue. ...read more - 50Boston Globe - by Tom Russo
The crew doesn’t much look the part either, save for Schaech’s Stalin ’stache. Yet the movie does show the ability to get past this, even with the weight of all its narratively risky conspiracy theorizing. It’s a shame the intrigue has to get torpedoed by elements that mostly feel correctable. ...read more - 50Chicago Tribune - by Michael Phillips
Robinson is undone partly by his own workmanlike touch as a writer, and partly by matters of casting. I like Harris, and he's quite moving here, but every time Duchovny reappears the overall energy level sinks to crush depth. ...read more - 50The A.V. Club - by Scott Tobias
Though pitched as a thriller, Robinson’s woefully underbudgeted film plays instead like a chamber drama, so simple and unadorned that it could just as easily be staged as an off-off-Broadway play without anyone telling the difference. And that isn’t entirely to the film’s detriment, either: With a cast choked with great character actors like Ed Harris, William Fichtner, and Lance Henriksen, less is sometimes more. ...read more - 50New York Observer - by Rex Reed
To be honest, I can rarely recall any film, on any subject, that made less sense. ...read more - 50Movie Nation - by Roger Moore
Robinson manages some suspense, but the thriller’s ticking clock is a weak one. ...read more - 42Film.com - by Laremy Legel
The idea of the film is certainly clever enough, it’s the execution that lacks finesse. ...read more - 40
- 30Village Voice - by Chris Packham
The ensuing suspense story is a pastiche of familiar tropes—effectively paced, but without originality. And what is up with combinations of Ed Harris, water, and unbelievably hokey endings? ...read more - 30Variety - by Justin Chang
The potential for screw-tightening suspense gets lost amid the ineffectual dramatics in Phantom, a feeble fictionalization of a crucial but little-known moment when a rogue Soviet submarine brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. ... - 25San Francisco Chronicle - by Walter Addiego
Heavy-handed dialogue, flurries of melodrama and a silly ending make the whole enterprise sink like a stone. ...read more - 25Slant Magazine - by Nick Schager
Todd Robinson's film is a third-rate submarine-set drama until, in its final moments, it sinks to fourth-rate. ...read more - 0The New York Times - by Jeannette Catsoulis
The dialogue is dreadful (though we are at least spared the usual hokey Russian accents) and the wrap-up ridiculous, the only mystery being why this peculiarity was ever greenlighted at all. ...
With a title like Phantom, one might easily assume that this movie is a ghost story. In actuality, however, it's a submarine thriller loosely based on actual events from 1968. The tale told by Phantom...
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Photo Courtesy of RCR Distribution Itâs refreshing to encounter a movie that doesnât try to reinvent the wheel, but simply sets out to tell a good story and fulfill the expec...
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Captain Dmitri Zubov (Ed Harris) and his weary submarine crew have been on leave, following a grueling and long mission, for only a few scant weeks. Zubov’s commander (Lance Henriksen) orders hi...
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