Crimson Tide vs Eye in the Sky

Crimson Tide has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 7/10 for Eye in the Sky). Eye in the Sky is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 56m. Crimson Tide is the older of the two (1995 against 2015). Both are drama, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Crimson Tide posterCrimson Tide1995 VS Eye in the Sky posterEye in the Sky2015
Crimson TideEye in the Sky
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 7.0/10
Year19952015
Length1h 56m1h 42m
GenresAction, Drama, Thriller, WarDrama, Thriller, War
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorTony ScottGavin Hood
Main castMatt Craven, Steve Zahn, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Scott BurkholderAaron Paul, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen, Alan Rickman

Synopsis

Crimson Tide

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to…

Eye in the Sky

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of…

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