Why?

Rating: 2/10 (5 December 2003)

First of all, I have to say that I adore "Das Boot". Every sequence is wonderful, and even though it is more than 3 hours, it is never boring or unrealistic. I liked everyone in the crew, and almost started to believe that it had been better if the German had won the war.
Then I saw this movie. I had heard before that it was a bad copy of "Das Boot", so I did not have high expectations when I saw it. But it surprised me, because it was even worse than I could ever imagine. It seems like if the director have looked at "Das Boot", taken the sequences from it and mixed them totally, skipped everything that does not contain action and found out a silly plot when he looked through the rest.
From the very beginning and until the silly end I sat in my sofa hoping that these bloody Americans would get killed. Who can possibly believe that a crew who had never visited such subs before could handle it with such precision, and not only solve problems that the German crew could not solve but also destroy one German sub and one destroyer? *Sigh*.
And why didn't they kill the German captain from the very beginning? Why didn't they guard their own sub when they stole the enigma in the beginning? Why are the persons in this movie only boring and annoying? Why was this movie ever made?
At least I didn't feel anything for the American crew. I only felt hatred against that arrogant captain, and hoped that everyone would die as soon as possible. But I have learned my lesson. "Das Boot" is one of the best movies ever made, and looking at any other sub movies will only make me dissapointed... 1/10