U571 "A distortion of History for the Glamorising of war?"

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 2007)

I appreciate a documentary drama as long as it is correct. we all deserve to be given the facts and not lied to or patronised. regardless as to who found the enigma machine; this film is potentially, an insult to the audience's intelligence & also very damaging to modern history. I once met one of the men from U571, a former crew member, He felt very offended that Hollywood would do this for the 'glory & entertainment" factor. The main issue is using a REAL U boat serial and a REAL event (the capture of the first enigma machine) and basing them around a fiction. this clouds uneducated viewer's understanding of the real events and thus; causes anti truth in history.
if you want to make a fictional film; do it just as that! otherwise, the titanic may as well have got into port and sunk on its way back!? right? or even maybe ended up fighting in the first world war and became the first aircraft carrier?? where is the line?
Hollywood makes some excellent films! true. the responsibility to make a docudrama is a stern one. we are mixing up truth with fiction or 'hollywoodising' as one British director once said.
docudrama is a document, re enactment of a historical event. regardless of how old or new the event.
truth is far More amazing than fiction!