See Das Boot instead

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2000)

It's a submarine movie. It's wet, horrible,and they get depth charged. The plot is pretty farcical, the much discussed Enigma is dispensed with in 30 seconds flat, but the cardboard-cutout characterisation is pitiful; That bridegroom isn't going to get home to his new wife, gritty captains talking of the need to gain command experience are clearly planning an early retirement, and any keen youngsters called "Trigger" are guaranteed a place showing up The Futility Of War.
Matthew McConaughey was less wooden as his previous role in a submarine movie; playing Troy Tempest in Stingray.
As a Brit crypto-geek, I expected to be horrified by the disrespect shown to Bletchley Park. It's pure fiction though, and so far from any credibility that I didn't care. The use of a US Navy seaplane in the closing scene over the Western Approaches though, rather than a Coastal Command Sunderland from Pembroke Dock, did strike me as a little disrespectful though, and for no valid plot reason.