In the battle front of espionage and code cracking of World War II, there remains but one task on the Allied agenda: the capture of a German "Enigma" machine which will allow the Allied naval forces to locate and track submerged German U-Boat submarines. When one such German vessel breaks down after a battle with British forces, a secret mission is dispatched to take over the U-Boat by commando American forces and retrieve an Enigma machine intact. The raid goes well, at first, yet following the destruction of the American mothership and the arrival of reenforcement German ships, the Americans trapped on the U-Boat must use their training and wits to pilot U-571 in order to save their lives.
A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.
*May contain Spoilers*<br/><br/>This is a well done action movie, but nothing more…<br/><br/>Of course I did not expect a historically accurate movie (because it was made in Hollywood), but what I didn&#39;t expect was that the entire history of naval warfare in WW2 was rewritten for this movie.<br/><br/>Since everybody has talked about that the Brits captured the Enigma, I don&#39;t have to criticize this anymore. We all know that the only historical American effort worth talking about is… well I can&#39;t remember… please ask me later…<br/><br/>But there are some other things I want to criticize…<br/><br/>1.) How did the Americans decipher the distress call from the German sub without the Enigma?<br/><br/>2.) Why did the other (submerged) German sub sink the disguised US-sub? The disguise was perfect enough to fool the surfaced German sub.<br/><br/>3.) In WW2 German torpedoes did only work against surfaced targets. How did they sink the other (submerged) German sub?<br/><br/>4.) How can six Americans with no knowledge of German language and German submarine technology handle a BROKEN German sub which was designed for a crew of 50 well trained soldiers?<br/><br/>5.) The Reichsmarine had only large battleships, small cruisers, torpedo-boats or supply-cruisers, they had no destroyers. Also all German Battleships in the Atlantic did sink before 1942. How could the Sub have been attacked by a German destroyer?<br/><br/>6.) Why should a German destroyer chase a German sub?<br/><br/>7.) German Subs did not have any Sonar!<br/><br/>8.) Why should a German sub-crew attack shipwrecked enemies? This would have been a waste of ammo. This sounds harsh but is the truth.<br/><br/>But despite these (and some other points) it is still a well done action movie, but really not more…
An embarrassingly aporetic WW2 popcorn flick which thumbs its nose at the honorable realism of Saving Private Ryan, mocks the incredibly tense and powerful Das Boot, arrogantly ignores the history behind the capture of the first enigma machine, and gives Harvey Keitel an incredibly beef-headed role in which to showcase his monumental lack of acting ability. (&quot;It&#39;s all in German!&quot;, he exclaims as though the brass didn&#39;t brief him that Germans didn&#39;t mark all their U-Boat dials in good ole American). When will Hollywood quit making this kind of tripe. Not any time soon apparently seeing Behind Enemy Lines is now playing. Revisionist history in the extreme, from the capture of the enigma machine right down to the black cook who doesn&#39;t seem to confront 40&#39;s bigotry whatsoever as he goes about handling every onboard task imaginable. Not likely I&#39;m sad to say. The special effects are typically exaggerated and the bubble-gum action repetitious and lacking any kind of tension. Pacing and realistic suspense is what made Das Boot the great film it is. It was also about the real fear men face when they&#39;re trapped in a fragile sub and at the mercy of enemy depth charges and air attacks. U-571 is an atypically brainless Hollywood imitation short on realism and long on noise and phony heroics. <br/><br/>Written and directed by a hack and made for an exceedingly stupid action market. I&#39;m surprised they didn&#39;t hire Arnold to play McConaughey&#39;s role. Never let believability get in the way of a good action movie after all.
Yet there is so little characterization that when the sub goes down, you may find yourself confused as to which of the supporting cast members lived through the torpedo blast.
No. It was never intended to be a documentary. It&#39;s an action/suspense film based on submarine warfare during WWII. Inspired by actual events, as the majority of WWII movies are. The actual U-571 was never captured by either the British or the Americans - she was sunk off the Irish coast by a torpedo launched from a Shorts Sunderland Flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.<br/><br/>(It should be noted that U-570 was captured by the British on her first patrol and saw service as HMS Graph from 1942 until 1944, when she was withdrawn from service due to maintenance issues).<br/><br/>The Enigma machine was actually first captured by the British, a fact the filmmakers acknowledged in the end credits of this movie. Out of the thousands of hours logged by U-boats, there is only one recorded incident in which a German captain gave the order to fire on torpedoed survivors. U-boat crews were more humanitarian and often provided aid to their victims before submerging. They very rarely brought survivors with them as space on a boat was extremely cramped for its own crew; often times the U-boats just simply left them to die, as seen in Das Boot. So the shooting of survivors in this film could be seen more as mercy killings rather than leaving them to die.<br/><br/>In terms of the film, it&#39;s likely that because U-571 was so badly crippled, short on crew members and supplies, with sensitive information aboard, it was too risky to leave the British survivors to possibly report their position. Not to mention, as we see with Taylor and his crew keeping Wassner alive; sabotage is a possibility as well.
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