Flawed remake of a classic

Rating: 6/10 (20 April 2007)

I was watching the 1981 film, Das Boot, the other night. The version that lasts just a shade under five hours. A tale of life on a submarine in war. Dirty, grimy, cramped terror in a way that only Wolfgang Peterson could present.
Why would I want to see a remake that has so great a flaw to tell the story of the capture of the Enigma encoding machine by Americans. Anyone who knows history, knows that it was the British that captured that machine. Does Hollywood think we are stupid? I only tuned in to see Matthew McConaughey (Contact, A Time to Kill) and Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction). I enjoyed their performances in what was a flawed remake.