U-571
Dir: Jonathan Mostow
2000
**
If only U-571 hadn't have tried to convince people it was factually accurate it would have been much better received. If your Geography isn't that good then you'd be forgiven, if the alarm bells didn't go off at the site of United Nations flags then you should brush up on your history but if you honestly thought that any of this really happened you are.....trusting. I would never say anyone was stupid for not realising these things, I know a lot about the War but I wasn't taught much of it, I wanted to learn for myself. We should be able to trust the historical accuracy of these kinds of film. Many an American solder died bravely and tragically, it's just that at the time of the Enigma captures, the American's had yet to even join the war. We really ought to know this kind of thing. All factual errors aside, it is a pretty good film. It's better than a guilty pleasure, the acting, direction and suspense are all there. This is the obligatory 'It's no Das Boot though' comment.