Fantastic!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

The film opens reminding us North Korea is still there. A Norwegian ship operating precariously close to N.Korean waters has its own two man submarine of ancient design. Three Navy SEALS and one civilian driver of the sub, Mats (Johannes Kuhnke) take a top secret dive. The SEALS are lead by Alice "Red" Edwards. They over load the sub with people and special equipment then debark. There are immediate personality conflicts. Mats, who is steering the sub, is in the dark about the mission, as are we the audience. About halfway into the film, it goes from mission oriented to survival (see DVD cover).It was a fairly intense drama/thriller, although I was uneasy about the plausibility of the plot. The film consists of 4 people in a two man sub getting on each others' nerves very quickly.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Ocean picture without sharks.

If I judge Navy seals and spec ops on this movie they are made up of crying, incompetent, babies, absolutely no idea the director of this movie. Basically a movie based on a very bad decision by the female commander of the op which gets the entire crew killed. Even after repeated warnings not to blow up the UAV, It's like the director had a brain fart and ran out of ideas and thought sod it let's blow some stuff up and we will take it from there. As for the ending OMG!!!! Worst ending ever.

A steely looking Tom Hanks lookalike lends his expertise and sea craft to a small special ops team on a recovery mission.We soon realise he is just a proto-main character and he quickly makes way for the female team leader to take charge of the storyline and screen. The mission quickly becomes a fight for survival as she makes one cretinous decision after another.Eventually she is challenged by her right hand man who is three times her size and has already knocked out a similarly sized character with a single punch. This is no problem for her though as she rips his shoulder out of it's socket then strangles him with her bare hands, but not before delivering some edgy put downs.In a final twist, her henchman rises from the dead and attacks Tom Hanks who by this time has been reduced to a useless damsel in distress. Not to worry. Our tiny heroine is on hand to save the day and kill him a second time! By this point I got the impression the audience was supposed to be rooting for her, which wasn't easy after her moronic actions had effectively killed everyone on board.Inevitably, the female is the only survivor and ends up stranded in the middle of the ocean. Couldn't have happened to a better person.Great if you're still not tired of the slowly dwindling feminist/sjw agenda.

The Chamber is a deep sea thriller, that's surprisingly watchable. The premise is a simple one and in spite of the "confinement" this films premise is built upon, it works quite well. Take a group of US military types on a secret mission, throw in a Swedish submariner and there you have it. This film is carefully paced and builds the tension well. The other reason it works, is the quality acting and interplay between the cast members. In short, not an easy film to make well but that's exactly what you have with The Chamber. Seven out of ten from me.