Historians/Purists, Beware. Be VERY ware

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2000)

For all the opprobrium loaded on this in the UK (not entirely unjustified) I went open-minded, hoping for a well-researched good yarn. Sadly, the hoary old cliche 'don't let the facts get in the way of a good story' plays true. Things go wrong for villains, but not for the good guys. A seriously weakened and damaged submarine holds together for the good guys when it needs to. Depth charges seem to know when it is the good guys, as their explosive power is mitigated. And phew, what a powerful torpedo.
U-571 should have been destroyed several times over, but hey. we're the good guys. For all they hype, little above the war comics we of my generation used to read.
Plot full of inconsistencies, holes and the odd implausibility. A disappointment.