Men of Honor (Blu-ray) R

History is made by those who break the rules.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 23, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2000
  • Label: 20Th Century Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 77,263
Rating: 3.5/5 -- By the time its clunking climax rolls around, the film has built up enough honest good will that you can forgive its tear- jerking pomp.
New York Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3/5 -- Stirring story--may be appropriate for some teens. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 26, 2010
Rating: C- -- Strangled with formula. Full Review
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Sep 16, 2007
Rating: 3/4 -- The movie is an old-fashioned biopic, and I mean that as a compliment. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
...Cuba Gooding Jr. [gets to] flex both physical and acting muscles for once....De Niro cagily crafts Sunday, a composite character, into a memorable and complex creation...
USA Today
Nov 10, 2000
...Gooding Jr. is effortlessly appealing as Brashear and you'll root for him to succeed....Very noble...
Total Film
Apr 1, 2001
Rating: 2/5 -- De Niro's theatrics detract from the rest of the cast's subtleties and ultimately reduce an entertaining popcorn flick to a mere endurance test. Full Review
BBC.com
Apr 16, 2001

Product Description:

An heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in George Tillman, Jr.'s docudrama MEN OF HONOR, based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver. The film employs the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl Brashear (played with noble grace by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is the son of a degraded Southern sharecropper. Determined to succeed in the vocation he believes he was born for, Brashear enlists in the navy. Once there, however, the determined young man finds his dream inaccessible--thwarted by the forces of institutional and personal racism. When, after a long and difficult struggle, he is finally allowed into diving school, he finds himself under the authority of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a former master diver whose injured lung has left him permanently above water. Sunday becomes simultaneously Brashear's most vicious adversary and most loyal supporter, motivating him to succeed. The story that follows is a highly emotional wave of ups and downs: Brashear overcomes one barrier only to be met by the next, even larger one. MEN OF HONOR is at times heartbreaking and painful to watch, but the triumphant ending makes for a deeply satisfying payoff.

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