Joe Glass hunted an American victim in the ocean to the frozen North, but was surprised during that task that there was a Russian coup d'état that happened to the Russian president and was hijacked to dismantle the world order. Joe Glass is the captain of the US submarine, who must assemble a large force of naval forces to rescue the abducted Russian president and bring back the world order, which is threatened with collapse.
Splitting the difference between scenes of Navy SEAL rescue attempts, underwater evasive maneuvers and your own countdown clock toward an incipient nap, Hunter Killer feels both generic and underheated.
The title fits what Butler serves up on a silver platter... Hunter Killer still isn't a great movie, but it puts the world order back in place for the better part of two hours as it re-establishes the Russian threat to the American Way.
The Tom Clancy-Lite plot is disposable and dated... and the action, when it does arrive, is quiet enough to send the most insomnia-plagued of audiences to sleep.
It's nice to spend a couple of hours in a fictional world where we don't have to worry about the American president doing something ruinously idiotic and evil. It plays like a nostalgic fairy tale.