USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Nicolas Cage stars in the true story of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered components for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. It was subsequently torpedoed, resulting in the US Navy's largest loss of life at sea. The infamous story is butchered in this shoddily assembled disaster film that is filled with awful dialogue, corny subplots and bad effects. The cast is left flailing against the waves and a lack of compelling backstory, as a dull first hour gives way to the survival portion of the story, where we are asked to be invested in characters we know very little about. Cage stares blankly throughout, reciting lines as if reading from a shopping list. Whatever a captain is supposed to inspire is absent from his detached performance. Men of Courage makes an almighty mess of American history, steering clear of anything even remotely entertaining in favour of shambolic anti-cinema.