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U-571 [DVD] [2000]

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  • Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, David Keith
  • Directors: Jonathan Mostow
  • Writers: Jonathan Mostow, David Ayer, Sam Montgomery
  • Producers: Dino De Laurentiis, Hal Lieberman, Lucio Trentini, Martha De Laurentiis
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2001
  • Run Time: 116 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000505IM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,696 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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If you've never seen a submarine drama before, then U-571 will probably make a good impression as a tautly choreographed piece of entertainment. A strong cast led by Matthew McConaughey's sympathetic Lt. Tyler undertakes a perilous mission to seize a German Enigma machine, and encounter many dangers along the way. For anyone who has seen any other submarine movie, however, U-571 quickly turns into a succession of genre clichés: there's the depth-charge dropping scene, the diving so deep the reading goes off the scale scene, the near-mutinous tension among the crew, the sacrificial lamb who must save the day, the one torpedo left in the tube, assorted pipes bursting, and so on. The formula is set up by Bill Paxton's hard-nosed Captain, who tells Tyler what he must be prepared to do if he ever has his own command: a series of prophecies that, of course, all come true before long. From then on it's predictable action all the way.

Where U-571 scores highly is in its wealth of period detail: every cog and lever that operates the U-boat is dwelt upon lovingly. It looks and feels completely authentic. The central historical inaccuracy, that the first naval Enigma machine was in fact captured by a British ship, is apologetically mentioned in the end credits. The movie makes no claim to be a true story, admittedly, but other fictional dramas have dealt with the same subject more effectively. Try the magnificent Das Boot, for example, then The Cruel Sea, after which U-571 will seem very unambitious indeed. --Mark Walker

On the DVD: The director himself interviews two naval officers, one American and one British. The British officer is Lt. Commander David Balme, the very man who captured the first naval Enigma machine from U-110 in 1941; the American is the movie's technical adviser, Vice Admiral Patrick Hannifin. The Enigma machine itself is described briefly by an American cryptologist. There's also an old American documentary short about the 1944 capture of the U-505 in the Pacific and a "making of" featurette. The director provides a detailed commentary. --Mark Walker

Video Description
DVD Special Features:

Story of U-571
The Enigma
Director's Commentary
Anamorphic 16:9
Dolby Digital
English Subtitles

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute junk, 22 Oct 2001
By Russ Gunn (Rushden, Northamptonshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Another pile of tosh from America. This time claiming they found the first Enigma machine and therefore stopped the War going any further. Oh how we are grateful!! We all know it was the British who found it so why make out it was the Yanks. Don't bother buying it.

By the way, apart from the incorrect storyline and the awful triumphant music constantly playing to spur on those brave American heroes in their quest to save the world again, the photography and directing isn't all that bad.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Let's Change History! Literally..., 6 April 2007
By ianrmillard - See all my reviews
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The sea sequences in this film are really good, really believable, so it is a pity that this film falls down very badly in other respects. For one thing, this was billed as a true story when released. It is not. There was such a mission in WW2, carried out by the Royal Navy, i.e. the British. The film makes the heroes Americans (though there is a kind of credit at the end, noting several British and one American mission of the kind, i.e. making out this film to be a kind of composite). Certain other features of the film are also typically Hollywood anti-Nazi propagandistic: the U-boat captain machineguns some survivors in an open boat, citing "Fuhrer's standing orders". While there were atrocities of this sort on BOTH sides in WW2, the U-boat commanders in the early part of the war were markedly chivalrous and there never were any such orders from Hitler. Later in the film, an American officer says they must not fall into Nazi hands because they "would be tortured without mercy". No. The Germans treated captured servicemen of Western powers according to the Geneva Convention, a fact which is undisputed. The German Navy or Kriegsmarine was particularly punctilious in this regard. Torture? "Suspicion ever haunts the guilty mind" and look at the American record in both WW2 and today! This is a film for the scrapheap or the bin.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A disgraceful rewrite of history, 14 Mar 2004
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I think this film is best summed up by the writing on the front of the DVD packaging: "nine ordinary men are about to change history." - yeah, literally.

Why? What is it that makes Holywood producers want to piss on the memory of the heroes of the Royal Navy by pretending that it was someone else who did it? In fact, why does Holywood seem to want to write the British out of just about every single war movie?

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