What history?

Rating: 2/10 (27 February 2005)

The greatest fault of this movie is not that it copies and rips off whole scenes from "Das Boot", but that it pretends to be somehow "historical". Forget about the Enigma machine for a moment, for me the last straw came when U-571 was being hunted down by "the entire German Navy", like the German navy had free roam of the seas or like it was a massive threat. Besides, in the movie the German Navy can't seem to shoot straight anyway, so why worry?. I would put this movie in the same category as "Air Force One" and "Independence Day", all of them are plain "Hooray for us" ego stroking movies, totally divorced from reality.