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U-571

2000

Jonathan Mostow

Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi ...

6.2

9,431

War. Mystery A U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are just beginning to enjoy 48 hours of leave when they receive word to immediately return to duty. On a top-secret assignment, they must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board, they are to steal the Nazi's top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's really happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"'U-571' manages to work up some generic claustrophobic discomfort (...) Yet there is so little characterization that when the sub goes down, you may find yourself confused as to which of the supporting cast members lived through the torpedo blast"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] is exciting in only the most superficial way. Well crafted but consisting almost exclusively of suspense and action high points with little modulation and even less characterization"	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Mostow has fashioned something with an admirable level of purity about it (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	George Perry BBC	"It's a noisy, cliche-ridden, incomprehensible mess (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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 (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Neil Smith Radio Times	"Mostow's film does at least deliver its fair share of undemanding popcorn entertainment (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Aided by persuasive effects and authoritative production design (...) Mostow pays his dues to the genre, but without much charge and even less depth"	NEU

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