Excellent Action Movie

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2000)

Attention would be Hollywood Directors: If you want to see how a great action movie is done, Watch U-571! The Directing was top notch. Having seen many other WWII movies, I was greatly impressed with the way the director took some of his plot tools and scenery tools from movies of the past and incorporated them in a newly creative way. The Cinematography was of extreme high quality. The Cast was just perfect. Matthew McConaughey had a great performance, I didn't detect even a trace of Wooderson in him in this role. He was a deadly serious Naval Officer, and he pulled it off with flying colors. Harvey Keitel, Jake Weber, David Keith, Bill Paxton, and little known Dave Power, who was excellent as the mechanic, all put in great supporting performances.
On the critical side of things, some will say that it wasn't the true story. They would be correct, it is pretty clear after you watch the movie that the writer/director took the story from several of these missions and put together an outstanding action movie, with some historical relevance, but not actually telling a "true" story. I don't have a problem with this, but some will.
Overall, if you like action movies, I recommend this one.