Messin with history

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2000)

Firstly I would like to say that U-571 was a pretty good war film, Ive seen better but it was still good. My beef however is with the storyline. Lets start with this simple fact, the Americans did not steal the Enigma machine, the British did. Secondly it is was not stolen in a daring raid on a submarine, the submarine in question was shot at and then ransacked by the British crew of a destoryer. Never was it commandered by some gung-ho group of sailors to be shot at by every underwater thing bar whales.

The reason this irates me so much is that so many people take what they see at the cinema for granted (especially when it says 'Based on a true story' in its heading), and so to many people will say ah yes, those brave americans, they hapled change the course of the war with that daring effort.

This just is derogitory to those who did get the enigma machine in real life, they know will be forgotten by many, and instead Bon Jovi and others will take their place. Once again the media rewrites history!!!