Shameful misrepresentation of history

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2002)

While I'm not pro-British nor pro-German, I have to say that I was quite distressed at the shameful misrepresentation that passes for history in this film. As we all know it was the English, not the Americans who actually risked all to get the Enigma machine. What next, a film about how American troops saved the day at Stalingrad? As for the film itself, I found the action poor and unrealistic. For example the Germans were easily blown away by normally non-combative "submariners" as if they were stormtroopers from Star Wars. At the end I actually felt sympathey for the English and even the Germans for the way they had been treated by this film. If the fim maker wanted to make me feel like a patriotic American he certainly went about it the wrong way.