U- 5. 71 Movie Review & Film Summary (2. The characters are perfunctory, the action is recycled straight out of standard submarine formulas, and there is one shot where a man is supposed to be drowning and you can just about see he's standing on the bottom of the studio water tank. Advertisement. To some degree movies like this always work, at least on a dumb action level. The German destroyer is overhead, dropping depth charges, and the crew waits in hushed suspense while the underwater explosions grow nearer. We're all sweating along with them. We saw the Nazis rolling the depth charges overboard, and they were evenly spaced. As the first ones explode at a distance, there are several seconds between each one. And when the charges are right on top of the sub, they explode one right after another, like a string of firecrackers- -dozens of them, as leaks spring and water gushes in and lights blink and the surround sound rocks the theater. At a moment like this, I shouldn't be thinking about the special effects. They call attention to themselves. They say the filmmakers have made a conscious decision to abandon plausibility and put on a show for the kids. And make no mistake: This is a movie for action- oriented kids. Submarine service veterans in the audience are going to be laughing their heads off. Matthew Mc. Conaughey stars as Lt. Tyler, an ambitious young man who thinks he's ready for his first command. Dahlgren (Bill Paxton). He didn't recommend his second- in- command because he thinks he's not there yet: Not prepared, for example, to sacrifice the lives of some men to save others, or the mission. This info is imparted at one of those obligatory movie dance parties at which all the Navy guys look handsome in white dress uniforms, just before they get an emergency call back to the boat. The mission: A German U- boat is disabled in the mid- Atlantic. On board is the secret Enigma machine, used to cipher messages. The unbreakable Enigma code allows the Nazis to control the shipping lanes. The mission of Dahlgren, Tyler and their men: Disguise their U. S. There are no scenes of training, and I'm not sure what happened to the Marine. The details of the confrontation with the Nazi sub I will not reveal. Of course it goes without saying that Tyler gets a chance to take command and see if he has what it takes to sacrifice lives in order to save his men and his mission, etc. If you remember the vivid personalities of the sub crews in . When they do have dialogue, it's functional, spare and aimed at the plot. Even Harvey Keitel, as the Chief, is reduced to barking out declarative sentences. The crew members seem awfully young, awfully green, awfully fearful, and so headstrong, they border on mutiny. There's a scene where the (disguised) U. S. He's sure the plane is going to strafe them and orders the man on the deck machine gun to fire at it. His superior officer orders the gunner to stand fast. Without actually consulting Navy regulations, my best guess is that kid should be court- martialed. You can enjoy . But that doesn't stop it from looking cheesy. U-571 is a 2000 war film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy. Create an Account Sign In; My Veoh; Videos; TV Shows; Movies; Music; Channels; Groups; Forums; Upload a Video; u-571 by: maximuz1978 U-571 movie available on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD and On Demand from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Watch U-571 trailers and video and find out where to buy. Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis and director Jonathan Mostow (. Inside the sub, they have the usual cliches: The sub dives to beyond its rated depth, metal plates creak and bolt heads come loose under the pressure. Better than the screenplay, anyway. In case you're wondering, the German sub on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is U- 5. USS Pillsbury, part of the escort group of the carrier USS Guadalcanal. No Enigma machine was involved. An Enigma machine was obtained on May 9, 1. HMS Bulldog captured U- 1. U- 5. 70 was captured by British planes and ships, without Enigma. This fictional movie about a fictional U. S. Oh, the British deciphered the Enigma code, too. Come to think of it, they pretty much did everything in real life that the Americans do in this movie. Compared to 'Das Boot' or 'The Hunt For Red October,' it's thin soup. You can enjoy U-571 as a big, dumb war movie without a brain in its head. But that doesn't stop it from looking cheesy. An old-fashioned blockbuster. U-571 Trailer goran2705. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 2,510 2K. U-571 (1/11) Movie CLIP - German U-Boat Attack (2000) HD - Duration: 2:08.
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