This movie has "average" written all over it.

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2002)

Contains spoilers
"Totally average" is a nice way to describe this movie. For the most part it's well made, well acted etc, but nothing special. As could be expected, it also has a quite predictable plot, which is mostly believable, but has some really stupid moments. For example, when the Americans enter the German submarine, one of them reads the dials and exclaims "everything's in German ! " NO, REALLY ?
The rest of the movie as passable, except for the lame end scene (SPOILER AHEAD):
The battered submarine filled with our heroes drives headlong into a German destroyer, which fires at it with all his force but, miraculously, misses it completely. Then, our heroes shoot their last Torpedo straight at the destroyer, whose crew seems very surprised that a submarine can actually fire a torpedo ! And finally, the torpedo hits the destroyer, causing an explosion that's so ridiculously large that it makes "Independence Day" look modest.
All things considered, this movie is watchable, but it's predictable, simplistic and at times just plain stupid. I'd give it

*1/2 out of **** stars, or 4/10