What are people thinking?!?!?

Rating: 4/10 (3 February 2001)

First of all, I've been reading other reviews of this movie that seem to praise it for realism. Let's get one thing straight, in no way is this movie realistic. For one thing, the whole mission is to board a crippled german sub that is stranded in the atlantic. When their own sub gets destroyed, the americans are forced to pilot the german sub instead. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt this sub crippled? Isn't this the whole point of the film? Well, apparently, its only crippled for germans, because a skeleton crew of non-german speaking americans can decipher the controls and out-manuver german subs and destroyers alike while sailing home the whole time.
But then again, this appears to be some sort of super submarine. After all, it can withstand depth charges blowing up several meters from its hull all day. Apparently, the only way for a depth charge to take out a sub is if someone aboard leaves a hatch open and it happens to drift into it. Beyond this, the sub can dive deeper than any sub of its time even when damaged. And even beyond that, it has some sort of super-torpedo that can take out a ship with one hit. In real life, this crew and their stolen sub would have died around 50 times over, but whoever wrote the film must have figured the audience was too stupid to know that and was somehow able to pass this piece of c**p off as a realistic WW2 Naval movie. As for realism, it would be more credible if the sub had been sunk, and they had all simply swam home.