60 minutes of raw adrenaline

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2000)

Look, this is not a deep, perceptive work. It's a very watch-able WWII submarine movie in the post-war tradition of Run Silent, Run Deep and We Dive at Dawn. Its outstanding trait is a 60 minute adrenaline roller-coaster ride in the vein of the first 10 minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It just plain cooks. If you're in the mood for a monsterously exciting, crisp movie, see this in a big theatre with a great sound system. Don't bother to rent it -- it'll lose too much on the small screen.