I chose to review the two Gene Hackman movies, simply because I can’t think of a single Hackman movie that wasn’t well done. I chose Crimson Tide and Bat-21 to review. Both movies are about senior military leaders and how they affect the mission surrounding them. The first movie I watched was Crimson Tide. The US had suspended aide to Russia due to a civil war in Russia. National Command Authority reported massive defections and the seizure of nuclear weapon silos by Russian militants. The USS Alabama was a nuclear missile submarine commanded by Captain Ramsey a combat veteran expert in the Navy. His executive officer (XO) was Mr. Hunter who had no experience and was an expert on theory. US response was the immediate deployment to sea
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The title Bat-21, was the actual mission call sign. The movie was based on a true story about Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Hambleton. He was an electronics countermeasure expert during the Vietnam conflict. American Intelligence had discovered, North Vietnamese troops were getting ready to combine forces and hit American ground troops causing heavy causalities near Quang Tri South Vietnam. Strategic Air Command was tasked with a massive carpet strike of the area before the enemy would have its chance to inflict US casualties. Hambleton volunteered his team to fly a surveillance mission. They would record the trip and plot launch sites before the strike, to help ensure the success of the mission. His plane was shot down and he was the only person to safely evacuate the aircraft. He landed near a junction on a Communist supply route. When Hambleton realized that he would not be extracted as quickly as he thought, he devised his own plan to get out before the scheduled air strike. A code if you will, that the Vietnamese would not be able to crack. Hambleton was an avid golfer and played everywhere he was stationed. So he put together an imaginary 9 holes from his favorite golf courses. A dream links, which was not on paper anywhere. He instructed the turboprop light attack and observation aircraft (OV-10) rescue pilot, Captain Clark, on which holes he was going to play and the prospective locations at MacDill, Shaw and Hickam Air Force Bases. The last fairway would have him end up at the river where he could be safely
The title Bat-21, was the actual mission call sign. The movie was based on a true story about Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Hambleton. He was an electronics countermeasure expert during the Vietnam conflict. American Intelligence had discovered, North Vietnamese troops were getting ready to combine forces and hit American ground troops causing heavy causalities near Quang Tri South Vietnam. Strategic Air Command was tasked with a massive carpet strike of the area before the enemy would have its chance to inflict US casualties. Hambleton volunteered his team to fly a surveillance mission. They would record the trip and plot launch sites before the strike, to help ensure the success of the mission. His plane was shot down and he was the only person to safely evacuate the aircraft. He landed near a junction on a Communist supply route. When Hambleton realized that he would not be extracted as quickly as he thought, he devised his own plan to get out before the scheduled air strike. A code if you will, that the Vietnamese would not be able to crack. Hambleton was an avid golfer and played everywhere he was stationed. So he put together an imaginary 9 holes from his favorite golf courses. A dream links, which was not on paper anywhere. He instructed the turboprop light attack and observation aircraft (OV-10) rescue pilot, Captain Clark, on which holes he was going to play and the prospective locations at MacDill, Shaw and Hickam Air Force Bases. The last fairway would have him end up at the river where he could be safely