This movie is a joke

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2000)

I did myself a favor of renting Das Boot first and then watching U-571 directly afterwards.
The plot of U-571 is this; make it so the audience believes the US won WWII and the British are incompetent and barely there and the Germans are evil monsters.
Several of the scenes in this movie are a direct rip off of Das Boot. The very first scene was stole straight from Das Boot. The way the destroyer looked was EXACTLY like it was in Das Boot. The line "we broke its back" was straight from Das Boot. The party scene, eating the orange with no peel, all of the depth charge scenes, and several others are also stolen from Das Boot.
A big part of this movie was to make the Germans look dirty and evil. What purpose did the scene of the gunning down of the lifeboat serve if not to contradict the latter scene of the Americans "graciously" saving the German sailors. It's simple, show the Americans as being kind and nice and show the Germans as being evil and inhuman.
Another big part was making sure the only mentioning of Britain was to insult her. The one time they mentioned British was to show how the destroyer had made a mistake, and then they show how "allied" radar stations fixed the problem. Calling the British destroys "tommies" as in "the tommies are c******g all over us" was just a way hiding the fact that it was a British destroyer.
The German destroyer somehow prowling the atlantic was also a joke. It was most likely put in to show how the Royal Navy was so incompetent and they needed the Americans to save them.
The final straw was the American Flying boat spotting the survivors. The writer could of made the rescuers British just to show that indeed there were Brits in WWII, but no, he felt it necessary to make sure the British had no chance of doing anything that would put them in any possible positive light.
I give this movie negative 1 out of 10 stars. Just another stupid American movie which insults my intelligence and dishonors the real heroes. Don't waste your money on this.