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Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Robert De Niro both give intense performances in this film about
Carl Brashear, the nation’s first African-American Navy diver.
The son
of a poor sharecropper, Brashear (Gooding) joins the Navy, in search of a better life.
Determined to give it everything he’s got, Brashear fights to get himself out of the Navy
kitchen (where the rest of the African-Americans are sent) and into the diving program.
After hundreds of letters requesting admittance into the Navy’s diving school, Brashear
is reluctantly accepted and placed under Master Chief Billy Sunday (De Niro), who does
everything in his power to keep Brashear from graduating.
Sure, the plot
is a bit predictable. Brashear never gives up. But think about it—who really wants to
watch a movie about a guy who wimps out, curls up in a ball in the corner, and cries?
Not very inspiring, is it? While Men of Honor is a little bit over-the-top at
times, it’s also powerful and inspiring (and the diving scenes are pretty cool, too).
Watch it, and you’ll be ready to take on the world by the time the closing credits
roll.
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