Waterlogged

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2004)

U-571 (2000) ** Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber, Matthew Settle, Erick Palladino, David Keith, Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Guiry, T.C. Carson, Jack Noseworthy. Murky and listlessly boring WWII fact-based action drama about a secret mission for the US Navy embarking on a Nazi sub to abscond the Germans of their Enigma code machine that nearly backfires when they are forced to assume their adversaries' vessels in unfriendly waters. Claustrophobic and badly lit are just a few of the factors but blame the dull script and direction by Jonathan Mostow and the basic fact that many of the unknown actors look too much alike with their military issued haircuts. Even the supercharged special effects come across as pedestrian.