It is an enigma

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2013)

I guess somewhere in the pitch for this movie. There was an attempt to replicate the tense atmosphere of Das Boot with a true life story.
The film takes place in 1942, a US submarine is in the Atlantic looking for a stricken German U-boat.
Posing as a German supply crew, they plan to board the U-571 and steal the Enigma machine, the device the Nazis used to send coded messages.
The film ends with the director putting on a title card dedicating the film to the memory of the real sailors who captured Enigma machines who were British sailors to be more exact, something this film glosses over.
Historical accuracy and this film are total strangers.
However this is not to say the film is entertaining, it is well made, McConaughey does his bland best but is out-blanded by Jon Bon Jovi.
Stern support is provided by Bill Paxton and Harvey Keitel.