That sinking feeling

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2020)

This is a Dirty Dozen style story about the Allies trying to get an Enigma machine. Many others on here have already pointed out all the historical inaccuracies. I don't have anything to add to that. It's frustrating to realize that many audience members will believe it did really happen the way this movie presents it. Although fortunately, we do today have The Imitation Game, which is a depiction far closer to reality of the significant challenges faced in cracking Nazi codes. I think the worst part is the demonization of Germans. It plays as though this was made around sixty years prior to when it actually came out. It is puzzling to see a country that is a strong ally of America depicted as consisting entirely of one note evil villains. I guess it's one thing that at least they get to speak their native tongue, rather than English with an accent?
If what I mentioned in the first paragraph bothers you a lot, then nothing in this movie makes up for it. If it doesn't, then essentially what you have here is a marriage of Das Boot and your typical Hollywood patriotic war flick. It's shamelessly cheesy without being obnoxiously over-stylized like Michael Bay's work. The dialogue, acting and directing are fairly bland. The action is competent, something Jonathan Mostow tends to manage on a regular basis. He might be the only person who worked on this who hasn't done much better elsewhere.
I recommend this to those who love, as I saw someone else perfectly expressed it, "military porn". My final rating is for them, and based on the technical aspects of this. 7/10