The Dirty Dozen 2000

Rating: Null/10 (8 October 2000)

Ok, there's just one thing I don't get: Why is it that Hollywood can make perfectly realistic, critical and disturbing movies about Vietnam, but if it's a WWII movie, they invariably get into this dirty-dozen pseudo-patriotic propaganda now-who's-got-the-longest-dick-us-or-the-krauts kind of c**p.
Maybe you have to lose a war to make a good movie about it, I don't know, but *all* the good parts in U571 are borrowed from "Das Boot".
They only added slimy pathos, historical inaccuracies, big names performing way below expectations, and one nice special effect they keep showing like a million times. And bad music in all the wrong places.
What they took away was the little word "anti" in anti-war movie.
What's left is just a bunch of all-American heroes having a dangerous and cool time in a Uboat, shooting evil nazis, who are so evil they don't even take shipwrecked people aboard (which no WWII Uboat ever did, not even the good guys), and so dumb they think someone who sounds like a drug addict who just flunked German 301 is actually German.
O-kay, I sort of got carried away :-)
So, see this movie. See how it sucks. If you like it, rent "Das Boot", and have a look inside another WWII Uboat. You'll notice small differences.
Uli