Historically inaccurate "based on a true story"

Rating: 5/10 (9 October 2000)

This is an OK movie, as far as entertainment value goes, but it has no relation to reality. It does a nice job of making you feel like you're watching something that took place in the past, so I'd have to rate it highly on the clothing and props.
There is a fair amount of psychological drama, in the moments where you know it's going to end up one way or the other... a fair amount of suspense. But considering that it IS a movie about submarines, it would be hard to make a movie that you can sit through that contains submarines and no suspense.
I'd say that overall, I'm just disgusted by movies that make Americans look like we all think that it's OK to say that a movie is based on reality, when it compiles different events into one story, and compiles different nation's soldiers (British, Australian, and US) into American soldiers. It makes us look uneducated and overly self-worshiping.