Fresh
It's a wham-bam bumpy ride, great fun in the old-fashioned war movie tradition.
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle
U-571
Heroes are ordinary men who do extraordinary things in extraordinary times.
2000 · 1h 56m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, War
Directed by
Jonathan Mostow
Overview
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Director and cast
- Jonathan Mostow Director
- Matthew McConaughey as Lt. Andrew Tyler
- Bill Paxton as Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren
- Harvey Keitel as CPO Henry Klough
- Jon Bon Jovi as Lt. Pete Emmett
- David Keith as Maj. Matthew Coonen
- Thomas Kretschmann as Capt. Lt. Gunther Wassner
- Jake Weber as Lt. Hirsch
- Jack Noseworthy as Bill Wentz
- Tom Guiry as Ted Trigger Fitzgerald
- Will Estes as Ronald Rabbit Parker
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If watching a two-hour submarine movie is this nerve-shattering, imagine what the real thing must have been like.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The movie concocts just enough genuinely surprising moments to make its own satisfying niche amongst the other examples of the genre.
Robert Horton, Film.com
Rotten
Plays like a third-rate disaster movie -- and an assaultively noisy one at that .
Susan Stark, Detroit News
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