Edge of seat suspense while US Navy commandos attempt to get aboard a disabled German sub during WWII and capture a top-secret decoding device.

Rating: 8/10 (27 June 2007)

"U-571" is a simple enough story from WWII. A German submarine has been disabled, but not sunk. A team of Naval commandos is assigned the task of getting aboard the sub, capture the device, then safely return to home port. Simple, but the plan goes awry when the team manages to get aboard the German sub. A destroyer from the German navy sinks their own sub, and the US Navy team is left to return safely to base in a crippled German U-boat. To make matters worse, the Germans have gotten wise to their plan, and are making efforts to put the crippled U-boat to rest permanently, at the bottom of the ocean. Depth charges are dropped every few minutes, just to shake the viewers up, and attempts are made to make the U-boat an effective weapon to use against the destroyer trying to sink the craft.
The cast includes Matthew McConaughy as the leader of the US team, and ably backed by Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton, and David Keith. There's also a batch of fresh, new faces on screen and these young actors do show some potential. There's highly explosive entertainment for the viewer as U-571 sets sail across the screen of his/her wide-screen digital television.