The film tells the story of a young man who dreams of being at the US Naval Academy in Maryland, but has made a strict cut and becomes one of 1,200 applicants chosen for the new student class. Now, this young man tries to face his destiny as he begins to suffer from self-doubt and asks whether he can really live up to the standards or if there are other things.
Jake [is] forced to swallow his pride and ask girly Brewster to train him. It's a marginally subversive moment in a movie that otherwise falls in line.
UGO
March 24, 2007
Annapolis throws the same punches as many of its inspirational fellow cadets and almost, but not quite, wins the fight.
Toronto Star
January 27, 2006
The movie plays out with the same martial drumbeat inevitability of a parade march.
Annapolis is less like a movie than a virus -- one that clings so tenaciously to its host genre that it begins to take on the characteristics of a real movie, even though it's just faking.
Judging Annapolis by its most appealing attributes (among all the cliches): It's not bad superficially, but neither is it all that it could be.
ColeSmithey.com
April 15, 2009
Character development and narrative substance are absent in this wispy movie about beefcake and getting a knack for teamwork in an oppressive atmosphere.
