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Rating:  - Good formula Sub movie
Basic story is that during WWII a German submarine has is disabled. It contains an encoding device that is crucially needed by the allies. The mission is to capture the device. Many things go right and many things go wrong.
Do they accomplish their goal?
This movie is fun to watch as it has all the elements and "subplots" seen in most Sub movies. They did not go overboard with excess mush or gore. The acting is good enough that you feel that you are there. The action and suspense is constant with no lagging or lingering. I am not going to critique the story incase you have not seen the movie. It would be nicer if they had shown the pictures of the actors with their names in the credits instead of just names on a blank screen.
Rating:  - Thumbs up from ex-bubblehead.
If you are looking for historical accuracy or impeccable acting U-571 may not be for you. The non-stop action and the outstanding cinematography are what made this film so enjoyable for me. The action scenes inside the boat were the best I've ever seen. Unlike some other sub flicks, the problems that dogged this diesel boat were accurate from technical and mechanical aspects. Don't look for long drawnout scenes of sailors laying in bed saying how much they miss Gloria back in Keokuk and wondering if they'll ever see her again.
Get ready for a major plot twist in this thriller.
Rating: - U-B Glad You Watched It
An intense action drama with a well built story. Tremendous attention to detail and even though it is not a true story it is very believable and engrossing. This is more of a story that "could have happened" and is based on a mixture of historically true circumstances rearranged with artistic license. Watch this one in surround sound with the lights out and you will be under the Atlantic surrounded by depth charges.
Rating:  - Only propaganda
Okay. Hollywood-movies are to entertain and not to give an detailed account of what happened in the past. But the plot of this movie is simply ridiculous. Same style as in the war-movies of the 50s and 60s. The Nazis let themselves be slaughtered like cattle by the valiant Americans.
Also, the SF are far off the standards which were already achieved by "das boot" 20 years ago.
This movie does not transport anything like e.g. claustrophobia; of the fear being trapped in a cigar made of iron in the middle of the Atlantic. It is simply about American heroism, not about the cruelties of war.
In this movie the Americans achieve, what in reality was achieved by the Royal Navy.
This is not just another war-movie like "Saving Private Ryan" with a fictional story in a historical setting, just another "change of reality"-style-movie.
I do not want to know how many people run around now, truelly believing that the Americans cracked "Enigma".
The whole Movie is not about action, u-boats, a part of the liberation of Europe or valiant deeds in war, it's just about "good guy" against "bad guy", in a manner that is called American "hurra patriotism" in Europe. Nothing against patriotism, especially the Americans often paid the folly of others in blood, and they have a right to be proud of what they achieved. But do the Americans have to be reminded of this right in such a crude (cineastic) manner? I hope, they don't.
Shame on You, Hollywood!
Rating: - u - 571
this is one of the worse propaganda war films ever esp. about sub warfare. its so unbelievable and just some hollywood garbage. i would watch das boot which is 100% better and much more realistic.
all and all this movie bites big time. bad!
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