Metacritic reviews

In-depth performances by De Niro and Gooding Jr. provide the oxygen for this extremely shipshape biopic.

It isn't about thrills and explosions, but about tenacity, and most of it takes place within our own imaginations.

If you don't view it too analytically, Men of Honor provides almost more uplift than a body can handle.

Educational and upstanding, a little overacted and more than a little overdramatized. But it's honorable.

A stalwart military inspirational.

Leaves you wanting to know more, and that's not a bad thing.

There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up cliches.

Those in search of positive role models and films detailing little-known aspects of black and military history, or stressing the value of tenacity and hard work, pic has something to offer.

In an effort to turn Brashear's life into a larger-than-life sermon, Men of Honor almost manages to make it all feel like an overbearing crock.

Loses focus of whom the film is honoring.