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Good movie but grossly overrated

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Wow all the whining. ALL war movies are chauvinist. There are scores of British made films about the war that are complete BS in terms of who did what.how many British films do we have to watch for example claiming Alan Turing cracked Engima when we know Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rozycki did. Are the Brits here going over to rate the film on Turing a "1" and noting it is jampacked with utter falsehoods?Just google: 'Enigma polish' to see BBC, Telegraph and Guardian stories on how the2014 film "imitation game" and 2001 "Enigma" both made in the UK absurdly giving credit to Turing are complete lies.And please, how a but Nolan's Dunkirk. There is a 60 year fake British narrative denigrating the French for surrendering. Well the UK, its ally just turned tail and ran unilaterally abandoning France. The abandoned French acted as the rearguard for the fleeing British troops and get no credit in that film.This is a top quality FICTIONAL action film. and an excellent one at that, If you depend on films to learn history of warfare you are already lost.

I was pleasantly surprised by U-571. So much so that I personally thought it was a better made film overall compared to Das Boot. Das Boot seems excessively slow and choppy in terms of pacing. U-571 took every element of Das Boot and just made it better and cooler. I prefer this over Das Boot! Please check this film out if your into WWII films or liked Das Boot, you won't be disappointed!

This is another in the line WWII Submarine movies. Such as ...'Crash Dive' ... 'Run Silent Run Deep' ... 'The Enemy Below' ... 'Destination Tokyo'To name a few.There were, a recorded total of, 4 U Boats captured during WWII. None of them were taken by 'commando raid' So yeah .... it is just a movie, so ... lighten up!There were no Zombies ... Vampires ... scrawny girls firing guns that are to big for them, beating the crap out of dudes three times their size. No slim, blood dripping off everything and nobody came out-of-the-closet. It was enjoyable!There is a plot!Although this did not have the 'strong' manly characters of old (except for Harvey Keitel, maybe) ... these folks got the 'job done'.I found the attention to detail good and allowed me to get immersed in the movie.This is not a chick flick! So it is understand able it is hard to find male actors that can stand on their own - as men. This does detract from the movie some ... but in the end ...This is a very entertaining movie.

I won't put this up there with the great war movies of the 40's and 50's. However, it was entertaining. Decent filmography coming before the era where everything has to be computer generated.Now, the acting was OK. Not what I would expect from Paxton. He was a bit dull. The short bit by Bon Jovi was amusing. McConaughy was actually pretty decent for this particular role.Don't watch this movie like its a documentary. Watch this movie for entertainment. It is not Saving Private Ryan, and it is not Das Boot. But that's OK. It was still worth watching.As for all of the reviewers complaining about this movie being a pro- American war movie? What do you expect? Its about WWII, and the Germans were the bad guys. That is Fact, not fiction. Depicting Germans as sub-human? I didn't see that in this movie, but that did kind of happen during WWII as well. (Trying to exterminate an entire race of people generally classifies as sub-human.)I would say that Hollywood typically puts out movies with the opposite perspective. CIA conspiracy, US Government cover-up, etc. How many more of those movies do we need? In fact, a typical plot-twist in this movie would have been that the Enigma device was actually given to the Germans by a pro-Hitler OSS faction within the US government. Its actually nice to see a movie from the straight-up patriotic rah, rah perspective once in a while instead.I don't normally write reviews very often, but most of the reviews that I read here did not reflect on the movie much at all. Just said it was terrible because it glorified Americans and bashed Germans. I didn't get that feeling, but many of these reviews did appear to be from those who may be trying to forget about the past. I don't think we should hold WWII against anyone descended from those who started it. However, we shouldn't exactly tiptoe around and pretend those things didn't happen. Remember it, learn from it, and we might not be doomed to repeat it.