not a "must see"

Rating: 1/10 (31 August 2000)

I've seen U-571 at a sneak preview. Since that, it's number one on my worst-movies-of-the-year-top10. This has different reasons:
1. The main plot about the enigma is not true in that way (Touring has cracked the enigma code earlier) and beside from that, the royal navy has recovered the enigma first.
2.There are many typical sub-movie-cuts i have seen already in "Das Boot".
3. The most disappointing thing are the unrealistic scenes (in a movie that tries to be realistic) along the whole movie and in detail such as:

a destroyer sunk by !one! torpedo fired from a range much too far from the sub.

a direct ship-artillery hit from the destroyer on the subs deck has only left a black spot.

the destroyer in the movie itself was obviuosly a grey painted tender-boat.

the underwater views does'nt look like state of the art.

There are simply too much of this mistakes, so i cant' say it's a good film.