Lacking logic ruins good storyline

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2000)

It's the middle of the war and the American navy launches a secret trojan horse operation to recover a German ciphering device. This submarine movie contains the mandatory elements of sink bombs, sonar beep excitement and going-below-the-maximum-depth. However, the glue in between these elements is lacking in strength. The beginning is promising, but some cliches (bad guys shoot their own to show audience they are evil etc) distract. As the story moves on, excitement fades as every problem is instantly fixed by turning the right valve in the hijacked enemy submarine - this move is executed at least 10 times as remedy for almost any problem, which makes the second part of the movie uninteresting. The major events later in the movie are somewhat ruined by the impossibility of them actually occurring during WWII. In a word, a below-average WWII movie with a good idea ruined by lots of bad logic.