Men of Honor (2000)

• Year: 2000
• Released: 10 Nov 2000
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 11 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203019/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Men_of_Honor
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/men-of-honor
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Runtime: 129 min
• Writer: Scott Marshall Smith
• Director: George Tillman Jr.
• Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron
• Keywords: u.s. navy, diving,

	7.2/10
	56/100
	42% – Critics
	81% – Audience

Men of Honor Storyline

Carl Brashear, born in 1931 to sharecroppers, joins the Navy and, after watching the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper, determines to become the Navy’s first African-American diver. At the Bayonne, N.J., divers’ training camp, Sunday is his instructor, and Brasher must endure hazing verging on the murderous. With Sunday and the camp’s commander dead set against Brashear’s graduating, his physical skills and steely determination, which he got from his father, see him through. Carl and Billy’s paths cross again when each needs rehabilitation one from an injury, the other from bitterness. Their wives look on with awe and frustration.

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Inspiring…and generally true.

“Men of Honor” is a movie inspired by the navy career of Carl Brashear. What ‘inspired by’ means is that the story is mostly true but in Hollywood tradition, certain story elements were made up or embellished. The character played by Robert De Niro, for example, was not a single person but an amalgum of two…and Brashear’s multiple marriages aren’t discussed. However, compared to many Hollywood biopics, it’s pretty close to the true story of the man…and an inspiring story it is.

Carl Brashear was a black man who became the first to become a certified navy diver. the racism and hatred he experienced along the way is highlighted in the movie. Then, due to his determination, he became quite the hero and was involved in finding a lost atomic weapon (yes, this actually DID happen). However, in an accident, he lost his leg and the final portion of the picture is his fighting to be reinstated to his old position instead of being medically discharged. All in all, an amazing story and one well worth seeing. It’s made better by excellent direction, acting, music and realistic sets. Well worth your time.

Some Lead By Example

I’m certainly glad that a film was made about Carl Brashear’s amazing life story. Coming as it did during the Civil Rights era, Brashear became an inspiration for people of all minority groups not willing to settle for a status expected.

Brashear as played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. leads by example in the conduct of the life he has chosen. Very similar to Jackie Robinson who integrated baseball and made it stick by his character and conduct. As Brashear, Gooding knows that he does not want the sharecropper life that his father Carl Lumbly has and Lumbly makes it real clear to get more out of life than he’s gotten.

But while Harry Truman integrated the Armed Services after World War II, the Navy still has its restrictions. A black man can only be a cook or an officer’s valet, the real fighting parts are denied him. That’s not good enough for Gooding who applies to become a Navy deep sea diver.

Once at the diving school at Bayonne, New Jersey, Gooding gets it all thrown at him, mostly by the Master Chief Petty Officer in charge, Robert DeNiro. DeNiro may have some leftover prejudices, but he’s nevertheless a hero and one who can inspire if one can get passed racial divide.

The best thing about Men Of Honor is the chemistry between DeNiro and Gooding. They certainly come from different places, but as they get to know each other, both turn out to be Men Of Honor.

Other good performances to note are Charlize Theron as DeNiro’s wife and Hal Holbrook as the head of the diving school, a guy the Navy just wish would retire for reasons you’ll see.

Men Of Honor is an inspiring story about people with courage to spare and the ability to change.

melodramatic and Cuba trying too hard

Carl Brashear grew up in Sonora, Kentucky. His father is a poor tenant farmer. Carl (Cuba Gooding Jr.) joins the Navy and gets stuck in the kitchen. He shows his swimming prowess and Captain Pullman (Powers Boothe) makes him a rescue swimmer. Diver Master Chief Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) is injured after a heroic rescue. With perseverance, Carl finally gets a shot two years later at diving school. Sunday is his tough racist instructor. The camp commander (Hal Holbrook) is even worst. All the other recruits walk out on him except for Snowhill (Michael Rapaport). He struggles academically since he only finished 7th grade and he gets help from Jo (Aunjanue Ellis). Gwen (Charlize Theron) is Sunday’s wild drunken wife.

This is a very formulaic inspirational melodramatic biopic. I accept the formula. I just wish it has more pep to it. Cuba is passable but he keeps trying too hard. There is an overt sincerity to his performance that he can’t quite corral. De Niro has great intensity but he needs to direct it more surgically at Cuba. There is so much racism being depicted that he needs to be worst than everybody else at least in the beginning. It takes him a little too long to get there and the 1966 incident at the start of the movie really misdirects his character. In the end, the sincerity of the film and its subject triumphs over any problem that it may have.