Hunter Killer isn’t smart enough to know that it needs to be dumb. The submarine thriller—starring Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, and their iffy American accents—seems to be aiming for verisimilitude: Its wall-to-wall dialogue is a mixture of imposingly nonsensical military jargon and casually delivered tough-guy soldier banter, and its visual look is pure, gleaming weapon-porn, enough to make any gun show attendee doff his camo trucker hat in admiration. But its story, about a US submarine going up against a bunch of Russians, is very silly indeed, and Hunter Killer seems intent on delivering it without even a trace of a wink. by Ned Lannamann