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Summary: Turn it up and tie down the sofa! WOW!
Review: This film will test you surround sounds low end. My 1000 watt infinity Sub got a major workout. ACting is above average as well as the visuals. The making of U-571 is a real bonus. MY suggestion? Put this on in your library!
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Summary: Serves it Function Honorably.
Review: "U571" is a Great Example of Turning an OK Premise into a Good Script and making a Great Movie. The Film provides all the Required Sub movie Thrills and although it doesn't add anything new to the Genre, it Serves it's Function by Being all it can Be in the Thrill department. I believe that it's a Step Up for the Director Jonathon Mostow. His last film "Breakdown" did not feature the required thrills and I found it Predictable and Boring, "U571" was Neither of those things, some have called it predictable, but I don't believe that they Predicted the twist half way through, (No Spoilers, see it for yourself) and I don't think anyone can call it boring. Sure, no Crew men will be reeling in a Oscar, but startling performances arn't what the films about, theres no room for them, they slow a film down, as does Character Development. The Acting here is as good as it needs to be. All in All, it's a great nights entertainment, A Bare Bones Thriller that Achieves what it set out to, to thrill the audience for an Hour and Forty minutes.
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Summary: Same scene over and over - Does not compare to the classics
Review: My first major complaint with this film is that when I went to see it in the theatres, the movie studio made the house turn the sound ALL THE WAY UP for added realism. No what this meant for everyone? Louder sound than a heavy metal concert. There were people literally running out of the auditorium during the film because it was so loud. I am totally serious! I don't know if every screening across the country was like this, but I had a hearing problem for the next several hours. I am 20 years old, and love loud music/movies, and even I found this to be absurd. And beside all the historical facts that are twisted and removed just to make this film seem believable, it was not that well acted either. I think the producers were trying to make a sub flick that compared to earlier classics, such as "Run Silent Run Deep" that they told the actors to ham it up a bit, trying to equal the star power of that classic. But with lightweights such as Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton leading the troops, expect some major stretches in talent here. The plot, about a Navy submarine crew that attempts to board a German U-boat for intellegence purposes, ends up stuck on it after their own sub gets sunk. The next 10 hours(at least it felt like 10 hours when watching it) involves the McConaughey trying to lead his crew back to shore, but they become chased by the Germans, and you get the SAME SCENE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It is always about holding the sub together after a "near miss" depth charge and evading the entire German Fleet. I recommend that you do not see this movie, it is not even worth the rental price. The sound quality, when it isn't turned all the way up, is impressive, but that is the only bright spot.
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Summary: A Respectable Film
Review: First of all U571 is a decent story about American involvment in world war II at capturing enigma machines. The previous customer reviewer John Loizou is full of crap. 1 the Americans were involved in capturing the enigma machines 2. His jealousy is apparent, in saying that the United States played no part in winning the war 3. He does not know his facts, the Americans captured enigma machines twice. Don't listen to that jealous foreign freak. This movie is not to bad. The realism of the inside of the sub is pretty cool. And yes I have seen "The Boat" an earlier submarine version that previous customers have mentioned as "Das boot" It is true that there are some inaccuracies about this movie and some of the acting is a little cheesy, particularly the black cook. This is a huge blunder. I have every respect for African Americans, but the truth of the matter is that they navy was segregated and they didnot serve on submarines. Him saying to the captured Germans "you've never seen a black man before, get used to it" is just a political statement by the producers or rather their attempts at being politically correct. They were trying to include someone outside of the white race to make the movie politically correct. But don't get caught up in this point, I just hate to see historical films portrayed inaccurately so that someone can make a political statement. Overall not a bad movie and a decent buy.
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Summary: An Awsome Movie, with alot of action and suspense!
Review: This movie was great. It has many ingredients to make it very well done. The actors were superb and with the action in this movie, I just cant stop watching it over and over. Go and try out this movie, and when the price lowers, go and buy it.
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Summary: Great Stuff
Review: A very entertaining movie that is only made better seeing on DVD. The sound quality enhances the scenes with the depth charges so much it is unbelievable. Great cast, well written and a gutsy movie. Also love the short hair on Bon Jovi, you could barely recognize him. Much like the Matrix and Gladiator, this is a must for anyone how loves thier DVD player and loves movies. The extra stuff is also a great bonus.
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Summary: definitely worth a try
Review: There are a lot of critics who rightly point out the historical inaccuracies of this story, but let us not lose perspective...this was good entertainment. I liked the story, I liked the photography, and yes I liked the explosions and the effects. It kept me and my family entertained and that's a key element. Obvious comparisons to Das Boot by many reviewers missed the point that this is essentially a very different film. Das Boot was made in the same genre as "all quiet on the western front": an unglamorous and somber warning of the misery of war. This is a fictional tale based upon real life events, ( just like many other works of fiction) and it's pretty well done. Try it - you'll like it
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Summary: Acting was not the strong point of this movie
Review: While the acting was sub-standard (pun intended) the suspense and drama made up for it. You find yourself gripping the arms of your chair during the depth-charge part, wondering to yourself how men could deal with it in reality. The effects were very good, since I live in Chicago and have been inside the German U-boat at the Field Museum I can attest to the realism. As for the story well it's reality to a point. If you like a good action-drama that skirts the edge of epic, then this is a good movie for you... If you have a good surround system, then crank it up and upset the neighbors, the depth charge explosions are something to behold. If you need excellent acting in a movie, you may wish to shy away from this one...to all others I think you should give it a shot...very diverting and enjoyable.
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Summary: Good but not Das Boot!!!
Review: The problem with this film is the story and not the special effects. The special effects on this one are great but the story is kinda screwed up. No matter how hard a director trys there will never be another Das Boot. I recommend getting Das Boot instead.
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Summary: "DAS BOOT" WANNABE CHANGES HISTORY FOR YANKEE ADVENTURE
Review: Others here commented on the basic premise of this movie being wrong: the British, not Americans, hijacked the Enigma machine to secretly decode intercepted German military messages. But "U-571" did not pretend to be a documentary film. So to be fair, this movie should be reviewed as a narrative action-adventure submarine flick. Among the main problems was the unnecessary subplot of Lieutenant Andrew Tyler (Matthew McConaughey) having to prove himself to Lieutenant Commander Mike Dahlgren (Bill Paxton) who doesn't think he's has the leadership qualities to have his own ship. So Tyler had to prove this by leading his men and having unusually good luck (and terrific submariner war strategy ... beyond that of an inexperienced officer). I think the acting by McConaughey and Paxton was in the O.K. category. But as usual, Harvey Keitel (Chief Klough) was convincing and terrific ... no matter who or what he plays. Probably, had I not first seen Wolfgang Petersen's DAS BOOT starring Jürgen Prochnow as German U-boat skipper (both in the German/English-subtitled and English dubbed versions ... SEE the German version it MAKES a difference) I would have been more excited about U-571. But DAS BOOT is so realistic and gripping that you can taste the salt water and smell the sweating German sea men sitting on the bottom of ocean at Gibralter. As a submarine war movie U-571 was pretty good. But as a submarine adventure, DAS BOOT is the gold standard. I'm surprised, Director Jonathan Mostow wasn't intimidated by Wolfgang Petersen's unbelievably good movie. Well, that's show biz and THREE STARS is as high as I can float U-571.
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