They've done it again...

Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2001)

Maybe someone can help me understand.
Why...oh why... do the Americans have to re-write history??
It should (I hope) be well known that the Royal Navy captured the first Enigma machine. And that the US navy had little to do with Enigma until the end of the war.
So do the script writers believe that the American public are too ignorant to watch a film that isn't about Americans? Or, is it because they have so little history, that they have to steal it from other nations?
Whatever the answer, it is a slur on the great British sailors who died for there country, only to be written out of the history books by some ignoramus who wants to sell movies.
If you want to see a far superior version, buy Wolfgang Peterson's 'Das Boot'. Far more exciting, far more realism, and no American glory stealing scenes!
Or if you like to watch a make-believe American history film, rent this, along with The Great Escape (no Americans where in the camp) or Braveheart (oh, please!) and The Patriot (need I say more!).