USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

2016

2h 15m

History

Drama

War

Action

List

17%

Tomatometer

12 Reviews

30%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

After their ship is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, the crew members of the USS Indianapolis face a harrowing nightmare as their ship goes down in the shark infested Philippine Sea.

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Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

This slapdash war movie doesn't do justice to its compelling subject matter.

Nov 12, 2016

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

Not exactly unwatchable, but it's also completely not worthy of watching.

Rated: 1.5/4

Nov 11, 2016

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Neil Genzlinger

New York Times

The film's leaden treatment of this incredible story somehow sucks all the drama out of it.

Nov 10, 2016

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Asia Frey

Lagniappe (Mobile, AL)

We get to experience this incredible story, starring so many of our local folks and landmarks, on the big screen.

Aug 23, 2018

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

Cage remains uncharacteristically subdued in the lead role. Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting his complete boredom.

Rated: D

Nov 10, 2016

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Overreaching, muddled and not reliably accurate

Rated: 1.5/4

Nov 7, 2016

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Nico W

A Movie from 2016 is much more worse than a Movie from 1997... The Specialeffects are disgusting compared to Titanic... just one example of many's....

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/20/24

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Junkyard P

So boring. Took forever to get going. And even then, come on. It's based on a very interesting true story.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/05/24

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Cork B

Just suffers from poor production values, writing, CGI, cardboard characters, etc, but other than that fine. One issue they had going in to this is if you are going to film a tragic story, there has to be a higher purpose. I am not sure delivering a nuke qualifies, but you (and the movie) could make an uncompelling emotional argument about ending the war earlier. The ending drones on a bit too long as well. It DOES have Cage and Sizemore in it, but other than that most of the cast are cardboard place holders

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/06/24

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n e

1 star because I appreciate the the WW2 genre. But movie is cringeworthy.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/05/24

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Paul S

Just plain terrible. It must have been incredibly difficult to turn such an amazing story into such a horrible film.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/28/24

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Bruce S

Wow. Just Wow. Why would anyone finance or allow such a train wreck of a movie to make it to the public? Just the worst movie you should never watch. Your kids just made a better movie in the backyard last week. Oh, they didn't make a movie, you say? Yea, what they did not make was infinitely better than this.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/04/24

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Synopsis

After their ship is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, the crew members of the USS Indianapolis face a harrowing nightmare as their ship goes down in the shark infested Philippine Sea.

Director: Mario Van Peebles
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Michael Mendelsohn, Richard Salvatore
Screenwriter: Cam Cannon, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Production Co: Hannibal Pictures
Rating: R (War-Related Images|Brief Language)
Genre: History, Drama, War, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 17, 2017
Runtime: 2h 15m

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