Kursk: The Last Mission's reviews
Media reviews
Cinemanía
Vinterberg shoots with pulse, exact light, crossing cold and moisture for so many hours down water waiting the blows from outside.
Fotogramas
'Kursk' is a quite flat, standard and no surprising movie, but also will please long haul viewers who keep in their dusty old trunk the memories from 'Hell and High Water', 'Run Silent, Run Deep' or 'The Hunt for Red October'
The Hollywood Reporter
It's a competent, by-the-numbers action melodrama. There are nonetheless too many superfluous scenes that sap the below-surface tension, especially those featuring Toni Erdmann star Peter Simonischek as a Russian commander disgusted with his mandate to "do the impossible with the inadequate."
Variety
Vinterberg?s Kursk occasionally lands an emotive blow but only in its more fictionalized stretches, while it pulls its punches with the thorniest and most provocative elements of the real story, an instinct that unduly submerges much of the real horror and lasting consequence of this tragically, heartbreakingly bungled incident.
The Playlist
A surprisingly bored thriller. It wastes the key element in suspense which boosts the film.