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Rating: 3/10 (24 April 2000)

Aside from the somewhat tolerable acting, there is almost nothing good to say about this movie. Other than that, everything else that is at all interesting in this film is pretty much a direct quote from either Das Boot or The Hunt For Red October - except much less convincing in the context of this totally ridiculous plot. Basically, you get a grab bag of tight close up shots of sweaty faces and damp machinery intercut with the occasional crappy digital effect of something exploding. The action scenes consist of the jumbled jump cuts and random camera moves that have come to dominate modern action films. The special effects are so cheesy that most of the audience I saw this film with was laughing when the Nazi ship gets blown up. While the main premise is kind of cool, the rampant and shameless historical IMPOSSIBILITIES that make up the plot points of this movie are totally repellant. This film is bad, bad, bad, bad history!!! It seems to me that this is a perfect example of how a foolish studio can push around a weak writer/director team to totally and utterly ruin a script that had, at it's heart, a good idea. People who have a fetish for Nazi uniforms might get a slight kick, but aside from that there is absolutely ZERO romantic content in this film. My expectations going into this movie were low, but this stinker breaks up so fast that I couldn't even find anything to hang on to. Stay away.