Good production, wrong history.

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2002)

Before starting my own critics about the movie, I would like to say that U-571 was the first movie of submarines I've seen in many years. My last one was "The Hunt of the Red October" (that's undre which name I know it).
Ok, in a very short tagline the movie was good but, like one user already commented, the cast didn't represented REAL sailors and, even more important, the history was 100% innacurate.
The Royal Navy (British navy) was the first allied force to get a Enigma code machine and, thanks to them, the war drasticaly changed it course. Wasn't the americans who did that for the first time. As a matter of fact, as I'm starting to recall some movie parts, the "allied" forces are not named in the entire movie.
Seems like USA was in one side, Germany in another and the British in another one. I truly don't know if history was exactly as that, and British and Americans didn't consider themselves in the same Allied group, but at least that's not what is shown at this movie were a selfish nation makes an heroic move to save the world... once more.
The submarines didn't gave me the impression of an aislated enviroment, and seemed extremely big and even short. Only 15 meters from the main control room to engines room?.
Good movie, great production, excelent FX (despite the movie was filmed entirely in an out-sea tank), nice cast (I would personal prefer other actors).
I would personaly recommend it to see a good movie a friday's night, and is very interesting to see because the topic of the movie is really well picked, since the recovery of the Enigma code machine really changed the direction of the Wolrd War II.
Thumbs up!