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Summary: Intense!
Review: A classic! Exciting, tense, claustrophobic and, ultimately, quite sad. You get the feel you're in the sub with these characters.Don't let the 209 minute running time deter you--it moves fast. Easily the best film Wolfgang Petersen has directed.
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Summary: Still the best war movie
Review: Excellent film that has yet to be matched in all aspects: accuracy, believability, technical, and script. If you have any interest in this genre, see this film.
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Summary: Absolutely Excellent
Review: This movie is the Hunt for Red October on steriods. It harder to give a better description. Intense edge of your seat drama that keeps you waiting for the outcome. Under water and full of danger, this movie is great. And made even better because of its ability to capture reality so closely. It has additional merit as being a WWII film from the German perspective.
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Summary: Shows Hollywood up beautifully
Review: I think this film sets the benchmark for war films and indeed for drama in general. It shows Saving Private Ryan up for what it is - garish, overdone, Americanocentric, self-obsessed cartoonery - by concentrating on character and dialogue rather than on physical violence. If you are not a German-speaker, remember to see the film with subtitles rather than dubbed. By doing so you will come to appreciate the distinction between Nazi German and military German, one of many such fine distinctions which the film illustrates.
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Summary: One of the greastest World War Two movies...
Review: Even though this movie is 17 years old, it is still far better than any of the recent war movies. True they delt with different aspects of the war, but Das Boot was far more affective with the emition of the characters. If you do watch it, I'd suggest taht you watch it in its orignal Germany sound track. It is much better than the English dubbed version.
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Summary: Rent "The Hunt for Red October" Instead
Review: "Das Boot" was way too long. It's over three hours long and the director's cut contains many scenes that should have been left on the cutting room floor. Also, the disc must be flipped to see the entire movie. The English dub was good, however. And the 5.1 Dolby Digital did sound good.
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Summary: Classic in military leadership
Review: This is a complelling study of military leadership with awesome production values - a real classic from every angle - the sound track alone is a must. The narrative is gripping, and every scene is masterfully done.
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Summary: outstanding !
Review: I have both video and DVD.,without question the drama and pain of "real war" come through.If you have surround sound, you will feel as if you are going down with the ship!.
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Summary: True to life of a sub under wartime conditions
Review: Das Boot is a movie about submarines involved in wartime conditions. The plot is based in a germans point of view, but it is about any sub in any war. The actions and claustriphobic conditions aboard a submarine will grip and shake the heart of a submariner that has ever been aboard a sub. The most disheartnig scene in the whole movie is the last. It gives you to wonder what is the real reason for war.
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Summary: Very realistic account of life aboard a Wolf Pack Sub
Review: This is one of the best movies ever made about life aboard a submarine under war time conditions. In this case we see what life is like thru the eyes of a U-Boat commander and crew during World War II. I wouldn't say that the movie is making an anti-war statement but does depict the obvious distaste that German Submariners in general had for the Furher and the third Reich as witnessed in the nite club scene. Rather the movie depicts what war is all about --- survival from day to day one hour at a time when on a Wolf Pack mission. The action is fast paced but at the same time Petersen does not sacrifice realism to achieve ficticuous dramatic affects.The tension gradually builds as the Captain and crew manage to escape one harrowing experience after another during one mission as a member of the Wolf Pack in the North Atlantic. It is certainly not recommended viewing for anyone suffering from claustophobia. I have seen both the original version (i.e. Director's cut in German with English ST) and the dubbed English Version (The Boat) and found the original version the best in terms of realism and emotion. Royce Trenholm
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