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U-571 (2000) Rank 2 Reviews
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MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)
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Reel.com (Tor Thorsen)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Francesco Puglisi)
Film Threat (--)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Straightforwardly entertaining and a genuine nail-biter. ...read the complete U-571 movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
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Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
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El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
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Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
It's an insult, not just to war veterans, but to the audience. ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
Bob Bloom
But "U571" does have a sort of oldfashioned innocence to it, and in its own corny way it is a fun outing.Set during World War II, the movie's plot revolves around the retrieval of an Enigma code machine from a German Uboat. With this machine the Allies ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Bob Bloom
Walter Frith
I also got the feeling that while watching this movie that someone behind the camera actually lost a lot of games of Battleship. You remember that Hasbro board game where people would exclaim "You sank my battleship!" I say this because the film is like ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Walter Frith
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Maybe there have been enough submarine movies. Between "Das Boot", "Crimson Tide", "Run Silent, Run Deep" and "The Hunt for Red October", the submarine genre has pretty much been given its due. There's only so much you can do with a group of men ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Globe and Mail (--)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"U-571" is a clever wind-up toy of a movie, almost a trailer for a video game. Compared to "Das Boot" or "The Hunt for Red October," it's thin soup. The characters are perfunctory, the ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
The plot here is straightforward, existing mainly as an excuse for deepsea dramatics. A British destroyer has crippled a German Uboat, the U571. The Allies are aware that the submarine is equipped with an Enigma device the key to unlocking Nazi ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Adds up to less than the sum of its individual parts, leaving disappointment in its wake. ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Fotograma.com
Siempre lejos de aquella maravilla de Wolfang Petersen "El Barco" llega esta nueva realización que sigue los pasos de las pelÃculas de guerra bajo el agua.
Parece que luego de "Salvando al soldado Ryan" el género militar tiene una nueva fuerza que ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Fotograma.com
Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)
GamePro.com ("Star Dingo")
DVD Talk (Joshua Zyber)
A just-OK submarine thriller nowhere near the same league as, say, Das Boot or even The Hunt for Red October, U-571 is fairly enjoyable fluff but not much more. The HD DVD offers mostly good (though flawed) picture quality and lots of booming surround ...read the complete U-571 movie review at DVD Talk (Joshua Zyber)
DigitalVD.de (Patrick Fiekers)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Harvey S. Karten
My gosh. There's so much tension in the eyes of the fellas in one of the German navy's unterwasserschiffen, so much sweat pouring down foreheads for most of this movie's 118 minutes, that you'd think that these sailors all live in a yellow submarine. The ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Harvey S. Karten
Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
I feel sympathy for Mostow, who spent eight years of his life on this project, and has come out with something that can't be taken seriously. It did fill me with respect for World War Two veterans, but only in the sense that if their experiences were ...read the complete U-571 movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Steve Rhodes
The movie's only serious flaw is that director Jonathan Mostow (BREAKDOWN), who shares the writing credits with Sam Montgomery and David Ayer, lets his movie drift at first as he takes too long setting up the plot. But, after the movie finds its sea ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Steve Rhodes
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Jonathan Mostow directs this WWII-set action thriller about a U.S. attempt to steal a top-secret encryption device hidden aboard a U-Boat. Matthew McConaughey will play the Navy captain sent on the mission. Bill Paxton, Jake Weber, Harvey Keitel, Jon ...read the complete U-571 movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
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