The Enemy Below
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Movie Reviews of The Enemy Below
Movie Review: One of the Handfull of Submarine Greats!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Submarine films are a genre unto themselves, and there is no doubt that this is one of the classics. Beyond that, it shows two commanders battling wits toward the end of the Battle of the Atlantic. Mitchum and Jurgens are both in fine form, and really demonstrate the futility of traditional patriotic warfare, if not its occasional necessity up through the 20th century.
There are certainly better films from the standpoint of showing the outfitting of a German WWII submarine, but that really does not detract from the drama of this film. For the inscrutable U-Boat commander (also classically played by Juergen Prochnow in Das Boot), Curt Jurgens demonstrates exceedingly well the conflict of dual roles of commander and friend with his subordinate officer Heinrich.
Highly enjoyable and recommended!
Movie Review: Enemy Below
Summary: 5 Stars
Dick Powell had to have had one of the most interesting careers in Hollywood history. He started out as a golden-throated pretty boy actor, made a successful mid-career shift to hard boiled roles like Philip Marlowe and then, for good measure, directed a handful of movies, including the submarine action picture THE ENEMY BELOW.THE ENEMY BELOW is a 100% action movie, without any distracting romantic sub-plot or comic relief crew members. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are excellent as the American destroyer commander and U-boat commander who cross paths in the Atlantic Ocean and engage in a deadly hunt. With a few exceptions the models are realistically rendered and convincing. This is one of the best war movies out there, and maybe the best navy movie available. I strongly recommend it to action fans.
Movie Review: See this film in a whole new way
Summary: 5 Stars
Col. John Boyd's ideas have revolutionized the US military in the last 30 years. With origins going back to the accent and most famous military thinker of all , Sun Tsu, Boyd's OODA loop has become the standard for analysis of military and now business, sports and any other field that involves the competition of humans. OODA, (observe, orient, decide, act) is a method of analyzing and understanding human competition. Is it really new? Apparently not as both Capts. Murrell and Stolberg fully understood its use long before Boyd put pen to paper. I use this film in my work teaching the use of OODA all the time. If you take a moment and find out a little about OODA, you can see this movie in a whole new way! I recommend the TV series "Legends of Airpower", which has an episode on Boyd, as the place to start.Movie Review: Killer Sub vs. Sub-Killer
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie classic is one of the best action packed dramas of World War II dealing with an American Destroyer and a German U-boat. Robert Mitchum plays the American destroyer commander and Curt Jurgens plays the U-boat commander. Their sea craft cross paths in the South Atlantic Ocean and engage in a deadly cat and mouse game that can only end in the death of one of them. This duel of two very experience naval officers covers thousands of miles and is action packed. Over all the models are realistic enough that you can just sit back and be engrossed in the hunt. This movie not only shows us the mandatory hunting of the enemy in a deadly chess game where one mistake means defeat and death. But it also shows us that en in war there can be hope and one can show his humanity.Movie Review: a superb character study of 2 men at war
Summary: 5 Stars
netflix exists for moments like this. i would not have seen this movie under other circumstances. this is the best submarine warfare movie ive seen, and yes, i AM including "das boot". curt jurgens is the captain of a german u-boat involved in a cat & mouse game with a destroyer (do i have that ship classification right? if not, im sorry but military stuff is not my bailiwick) helmed by robert mitchum. though they do not know one another, the two men delve deeply into one anothers minds as they plot out strategy against each other. the use of sound is startling, and the look of the grittiness involved is terrific. i thought that both as a character study and a film about tactics this was one of the finest war movies ive ever seen.