wow, what a loud movie

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2000)

U-571 is the silliest movie I've ever seen-- between the swelling music and the cliche lines ("She's old, but she'll hold") it plays like a spoof of itself. My face hurt from laughing so much through the first forty minutes, but the rest of the theater didn't seem to see the humor... It's awfully fun to watch-- the valor, the depth charges, the absolutely ceaseless action-- there's just something about it that consistently goes a little too far to be taken seriously. Its biggest flaw might be that it doesn't realize how ridiculous it is.