Ok, but not great, revisionist history

Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2000)

My first issue with this film is the misleading notion that Americans captured the first Enigma machine (the British actually did that). The truth is stated in a note at the end of the film, but it's mostly an afterthought. That's just plain irresponsible filmmaking.
That said, the movie was ok. The plot and action were relatively entertaining, but overly melodramatic.
Other people have commented on the quality of the music. I didn't have any particular objection to the music itself (it was, like the rest of the film, rather melodramatic), but on the DVD we rented, the dramatic music in the combat scenes was often so loud that it drowned out the dialogue. We ended up turning on the closed captioning so we could figure out what everyone said.
I've seen better from Matthew McConaughey, better from Harvey Keitel, and better from Bill Paxton. Heck, I've probably seen better from Jon Bon Jovi. I rented this movie with a free rental coupon so I could have something to watch while folding laundry. I'm glad that's all I was looking for, because if my sights had been set any higher, I'd have been extremely disappointed.