Another Hollywood Shipwreck

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2000)

This film is yet another example of Hollywood taking two successful genre pieces and combining them into a single manifest mess. The films in question? Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 Classic DAS BOOT and Tom Clancy's THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. I highly recommend seeing one of these films instead of U-571. This is film of stolen images and bad dialogue, as any viewer of the aforementioned could tell you. The actors are uninspired, the story starts out with a basic quest and plays out like it was written by a bunch of D&D players who made it up as they went along. Finally, the ending is almost offensive by way of relating this false tale to the brave men and women who were actually involved in the naval theatre of WWII as a homage to their struggles.
Don't waste your time on this one. I fear that given the hard sell marketing campaign pegged to this movie it'll be floating around for quite some time like so much flotsam.