Hollywood at its worst

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2001)

It just can't compare to Das Boot...in any way, shape or form. The history was deplorably re-written, the special effects were bad and (in a word) it was boring and presumptuous. What hammered it in? Around the same time that this turkey was released, The Perfect Storm came out. You would think that the makers of U-571 would have enough going on with a story like this to make it gripping, without having to re-write history or add in too many bland and useless plot twists and special effects. In comparison, look at what Wolfgang Petersen did with the story of some fishermen from Mass.who got lost in a storm. But then again, Wolfgang Petersen did bring us Das Boot.