Men of Honor

A Film Review by Paul Perkins

A Movie For The Human Spirit

Men of Honor
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Directed By:	George Tillman Jr
Starring:	Cuba Gooding Jr Robert De Niro Aunjanue Ellis Charlize Theron. Holt McCallany. Joshua Leonard Dennis Troutman Joshua Feinman David Keith Theo N. Pagones Ryan Honey Michael Rapaport David Conrad. Hal Holbrook Powers Boothe Eric Newsome Robert Blanche Scott Kraft.i
Written By:	.Scott M. Smith
Rated	PG-13
Running Time	1:45
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Seen At/Date	Ritz East , Philadelphia  11-08-00

.You can take a man money, car, home etc but you can’t take a man soul or dreams. Even so your dream has never been done before. Men of Honor for Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding JR) the son of a Kentucky sharecropper his father does not want him to end up like him so Carl joins the Navy. 

So Carl leave home to make a better life for him as his father tells him never quit, be the best Carl take them words to heart. He joins the navy under protest, the navy just became integrated but Carl does let that stop him of his dream. He realized what he wants to be in life. So he tries to join the dive school program but it not going to be easy to join because there has never been an African American to join the dive programs. So he writes a lot of letter to the captain to let him join. 

So he gets accepted to the program and he meets his new teacher Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) who does not like Carl and tries everything to stop him for finishing the class. But Carl does not quit because is he working to his dream of being a Master Chief Navy Diver which is the highest ranking you can get in the navy. But he will see it will cost him everything he has to become what he wants to be and best the best he can be. 

Men of Honor was one of the years best it has you from the start to the end. Here are some good and bad points of the film.

Good

1. The story was good and it shows how the human spirit is hard to put down and to follow your dreams.
2. The cast was suburb Robert and Cuba does Oscar performers they were very good and Men of Honor was one of their best films.
3. The supporting cast was also very good.
4. The dive screens were good and they gave us a in-depth look how divers have a hard job. And home much they risk their life to save some else.
5. The music in the film was good.

Here are one bad points.

1. The movie was a tad bit long. Could cut 20 mins

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