U-571 [HD DVD]
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Movie Reviews of U-571 [HD DVD]
Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Not factual, but a great story even so. Lots of suspense and action, my son and I enjoyed this movie immensely.Movie Review: Pale shadow of Das Boot
Summary: 2 Stars
The HD DVD is a very fine transfer, and the audio is great. That said, this movie follows in the fine tradition of Hollywood doing a lame imitation of a great foreign film.
Where Das Boot strove for claustrophobia, along with a sense of humanity, U-571 delivers a story full of explosions but devoid of accuracy or emotion. In the end, you don't really care who lives or dies.
That kind of says it all, except that if you're interested in naval realism, don't expect if from torpedo shots that make miraculous hits, and depth charges that pop every second for, oh, it seems like minutes. And the back of the German "destroyer" seemed to look a lot like the low rounded back of a tugboat, which was odd as the destroyer in the combat sequence looked credible.
Movie Review: Complete Garbage
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie was based on the capture of a U - boat during WWII by the Royal Navy who recovered its Enigma machine and prevented the crew informing the Kriegsmarine (Nazi navy) HQ.
As well as historical inaccuracy the acting is hopeless and the sub - plots totally unbelievable. There is more realism in a Disney cartoon.
Watch "Das Boot" instead and get a copy of "The Cruel Sea" (1952) starring Jack Hawkins, Denholm Elliot and Viginia McKenna if you want to see exciting, realistic submarine warfare from above and below the waves.