This movie is good because it was made for a good man. It is not easy to understand the hardships blacks have faced in this country. This movie does not exactly help us there but is nonetheless a good view.

Cuba Gooding portraying the real life hero Carl Brashear would have been better had he not been so Denzel Washington.

Robert DeNiro plays a cynical navy chief who hates and then begins to like Carl. We are not very sure why. He has Charlize Theron as his wife. What she is doing in this movie is a big secret.

The movie is worth watching if only as a source of information about deep sea diving. Apart from that it is melodramatic and over heroic.