Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

grantss Lightly entertaining John Wayne submarine drama.The Pacific Theatre of WW2. Lt Commander Duke Gifford (played by John Wayne) is the Executive Officer of a US Navy submarine, the USS Thunderfish. The submarine fleet, incl the Thunderfish, is suffering from malfunctioning torpedoes. Meanwhile Commander Gifford is also trying to win back his ex-wife...A stereotypical John Wayne movie, i.e. overly gung ho and not that accurate, militarily. Some quite unrealistic battle scenes. The relationship side is mildly interesting but also overly melodramatic and complex. Not all bad though, as long as you don't think too much. The battle scenes are quite exciting and there are some insights into submarine life.

disdressed12 for me,this was a good war movie with exciting action scenes and good acting all around.most of the action takes place at sea.the dramatic scenes are OK,but it's the action sequences that work the best here.the subplot involving the engineers trying to figure out why the torpedoes haven't been exploding is a bit unusual,and slows the movie down a little bit,but it's a short sequence,so it's not that big of a deal.but this is not just a war movie.it's also a romance.and the romance angle works surprisingly well.Patricia Neal plays the love interest for John Wayne's character and they have good chemistry together.overall,this is a movie that is well worth the watch.for me,Operation Pacific is a 7/10

kyle_furr A world war II film set on a submarine with John Wayne, who takes over command after the commander, played by Ward Bond, is killed. It's your basic submarine film, nothing special about this one, but it is well made. John Wayne plays John Wayne, Patricia Neal does a good job and in one scene on the sub, you can see the men watch Destination Tokyo with Cary Grant.

Robert J. Maxwell If you want to hear skipper John Wayne utter such immortal words as, "Take 'er down!" and "Rig for silent running," this is the movie for you. The story per se is a familiar one to fans of the Duke. There is a conflict between Wayne's commitment to his work in submarines and his commitment to his marriage to nurse Patricia Neal, in another first-rate, non-flamboyant performance. She seems so much more mature than Cdr Wayne, but still in the end comes around to realize that he was right all along, after a senior colleague tears a strip off her and brings her to her senses. The action scenes are rather good -- after a collision with an enemy ship, the foredeck 40 mm. cannon whirls around in its tub because of the impact. Nice touch. There are depth charge attacks, surface actions, heroes sacrificing themselves to save the ship, a rivalry for nurse Neal's affection, rescued aviators, all you'd expect from a submarine movie. Wayne, one regrets to report, was not actually a submarine commander in life off the screen. His career was just beginning to take off in 1941 when the Japanese had the bad taste to interrupt it. He was thirty-four and had two children so was exempt from the draft. He made a half-hearted attempt to gain a commission in the Marine Corps but when that fell through he decided, as he put it, that he'd be of more use to the war effort making movies than picking up butts in some army camp. Another detail worth comment: the submariners themselves were saddled with the Mark XIV torpedo, which ran eleven feet deeper than its setting and whose detonators were crushed on impact. It entered the war with a 50% failure rate. The Bureau of Naval Ordinance consistently rejected the complaints of submariners as unfounded. Otherwise, you see, the bureau would have to admit that it had approved and was manufacturing a defective product. The problem was a simple one to correct (once it was finally acknowledged) but it took several years for the job to get done. And it was accomplished by commercial engineers, not naval crews. Another minor point: I've visited several submarine relics from the period and they're far more cramped than the Duke's Thunderfish. I had trouble squeezing through hatches that Wayne sails through with ease, so I can only conclude that the mock up was built to a larger scale. (I've been told by people who know that my grasp of the torpedo situation at that time is less than comprehensive. I agree.) However, these are minor irritations in an otherwise enjoyable, if shallow, war movie.