The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
[Its] admirable air of realism dissipates once Robinson takes viewers outside the sub, where torpedo skirmishes are staged with too-perfect CGI bombast.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
1 Mar 2013
rotten:
It's not something you want to plunk down $12 for, but just diverting enough to check out when it arrives on Netflix Instant.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
1 Mar 2013
rotten:
A game effort by a decent cast highlights the old-fashioned submarine thriller "Phantom," but heavy-handed dialogue, flurries of melodrama and a silly ending make the whole enterprise sink like a stone.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar 2013
rotten:
The film remains mediocre, with flat cinematography and crudely anachronistic dialogue.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
1 Mar 2013
rotten:
Ed Harris and company can't lift this one off the seafloor, and "Phantom" fades away into the murky mist.