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Movie Previews The movie does have some neat special effects during the actual battle scenes: some beautiful shots of the open seas and some fabulous shots of subs being attacked — all computer-enhanced, of course. By their claustrophobic and dark nature, sub movies better be riveting to keep our attention for much longer than 90 minutes. Director Jonathan Mostow (Breakdown) gives us a film in two parts: the first half is filled with inane dialogue, while the second half is filled with loud drama that rarely delivers an exciting moment. www.bayweekly.com /movies/moviesu.html   (1037 words)

kapgar.com - movie critique The movie is told in a series of flashbacks by Spacey who is being questioned by a police detective (Chazz Palmintieri) after the heist goes severely awry. Spacey is ingenius in his Oscar-winning role and this movie is a helluva roller coaster ride. The acting in this movie isn't too terrible with most credit going to the actresses playing the Wolfmayer daughters. www.kapgar.com /films/films-uv.html   (1624 words)

Reel Criticism - U-571 Movies such as this strive to fill the cast with likable faces to make up for the lack of development in the characters and in U-571 they succeeded. As far as pace goes the movie is a bullet as it has perhaps one or two scenes were something is not happening. At the end of the movie it should have been a scene that caused the audience to cheer or at least clap, but I heard none of that. www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_u571.html   (997 words)

Unterseeboot 571 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1942, U-571 operated off East Coast of the U.S. sinking the British freighter Hertford on March 29, the Norwegian tanker Koll on April 6 off Cape Hatteras, and the American freighter Margaret on April 14 after the ship left San Juan, Puerto Rico. Unterseeboot 571 (U-571) was a Type VIIC submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down June 8, 1940 by Blohm + Voss of Hamburg. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unterseeboot_571   (594 words)

U Reviews The focus of this movie was also changed, from the escapee to the marshals, giving them the ability to develop these characters a lot more that they were able to in the first movie. This movie had a big problem trying to decide exactly what it wanted to be, with the result that every fifteen or twenty minutes it felt as if I was watching a completely new film. Overall, all the elements of the movie were well done and help make a fairly entertaining film, but the plot could have used a little more of a reality check to make it really good. www.geocities.com /ovendan/U.html   (586 words)

Movie Review : U-571 The movie ends with a little historical footnote that tells us that the majority of the Enigma machines were really recovered by the British and that the Americans never recovered one until 1944, when the war was coming to a close anyhow. It uses a lot of tired, 1950's war movie plot devices but tries to be different by including some of the more modern "black ops" style stuff from the 90's. After that, the rest of the movie is about staying alive and the plot devices pop up with clockwork regularity and predictability. www.cc.gatech.edu /~idris/Movie_Reviews/Review_U-571.htm   (766 words)

U-Boat film movie trailer review at The Z Review William H. Macy was telling me this movie will kind of have a "Das Boat" feel to it, not the typical "U-571" movie. A small update on U Boat with word that the movie is now completed. The movie will be distributed in America by Artisan Pictures. www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/u/uboat.shtm   (514 words)

Movie Cast and Quotes Sites - U If you are looking to purchase a movie you can visit amazon's new and used movies and dvds. Movie Cast and Quotes "U" Browse the database of movies that link to sites with quotes and cast member information. Let us know if there is a movie, cast, or quote that you cannot find. www.zrank.com /film_u.html   (105 words)

U-571 - Movie Preview Online “I see U-571 as being a seat-edge suspense movie first; a submarine movie second; and a World War II movie third,” Mostow insists. The texture of the movie is completely authentic, and all the technical aspects - the commands issued and the details - are the way it was. Above, Jon Bon Jovi (left), Matthew McConaughey (centre) and Bill Paxton (right) are the officers in command of US Submarine 571, whose task is to steal a top-secret code from a stranded Nazi U-boat during World War II. www.preview-online.com /march_april/feature_articles/u-571/page2.html   (462 words)

J.D.'s Movie Review Archive - U Well in any submarine movie you get the obligatory scenes where the crew waits in hushed anxiety as they listen to the depth charges exploding all around them. Right now there are better movies out there to see, and unless you've got a good home theater setup, it's not even worth renting. But the movie has nothing that separates it from any other action picture. www.california.com /~jodafo/MA-U.html   (747 words)

U-571 Movie Review This is not a movie for those wanting to avoid loud noises, from the wonderful, heart-pounding score to the constant yelling of panicking men, make sure you see this at a theater with surround-sound otherwise, do not see it all. I had lost all faith in PG-13 movies that are intended for teenagers and adults. Throughout the movie, several morals or characters are introduced to make Tyler's job as stressful as possible. www.killermovies.com /u/u571/reviews/du3.html   (560 words)

Movie Photos: U-571 One of the few unabashedly patriotic movies in some time, U-571 pays homage to our brave soldiers who fought and died in a world at war. 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. Movie reviews can be found at AllMoviePortal.com, and to greet your friends and family, try All-yours.net. www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2000_U-571_photo.html   (795 words)

Submarine movie 'U-571' sinks to the bottom It's strange the movie makers didn't use Harvey Keitel as the spark he could be and have some interesting characters. The movie does have a particularly strong cast the trailer didn't mention. But inside the subs it's usually just water leaking everywhere and characters staring off into space looking extremely worried in a dark and gloomy in a potential metal coffin. www.mnsu.edu /reporter/reparchive/04_25_00/medley2.html   (381 words)

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Movie Goodness Review - U-571 (2000) Overuse of depth charges in the movie will have your patience begging for mercy - or grabbing the remote to turn down the volume. The U.S. find out about a German decoding device, they race to the crippled German u-boat that has the device (disguised as a German sub to help) and try to recover the device by force. Jon Bon Jovi (who is in 5 seconds of the movie) sings the theme song... www.moviegoodness.net /reviews/r-u-571.htm   (134 words)

U571 Early on in the movie, the (still German) crew of the U 571 runs across a raft of British sailors who try to surrender. Matthew McConaughey and Harvey Keitel are on a mission to capture the Enigma, the Nazi code machine, from a German submarine in U 571. During the many combat scenes, the sub's maneuvers under water are cool and realistic in a way that similar scenes in 1940s and 1950s submarine movies didn't have the XF to be. www.hippopress.com /film/u571.htm   (412 words)

Laramie Movie Scope: U-571 During World War II the S-33, an old U.S. Sub, is disguised to look like a German re-supply sub so it can rendezvous with the crippled U-571 in the Atlantic. It is fairly obvious that writer-director Jonathan Mostow was trying to re-create the dramatic tension of the king of the submarine genre, "Das Boot," but he's not in the same ocean, nor does it reach the level of "The Hunt for Red October," "The Enemy Below," "The Abyss" and other top-line films featuring submarines. Where the movie falls apart is that we never get to know most of the characters. www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/u571.html   (573 words)

Re-Boot It's McConaughey's movie to carry, and while he may seem lightweight at first, he rises to the challenge, taking Tyler from "trademarked McConaughey pretty boy" (A Time to Kill) all the way up to the edge of "trademarked McConaughey bug-eyed psycho" (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation). Save for McConaughey and Keitel, most of the name actors are killed off early on, leaving us with a bunch of fresh-faced newcomers; an effect that adds to the realism of the piece, but makes it difficult to latch on to anybody, since their faces seem similar and their characters aren't clearly distinguished. It seems like a no-brainer formula for success: claustrophobic setting, invisible enemy whose approach must be estimated, inherent threat of both drowning and depth pressure, and from a budgetary standpoint, one key set is really all that's needed. www.lytrules.com /Reviews/U-571.htm   (961 words)

U-571 And since this is a submarine movie, suspense is supplied via several scenes of the huddled crew waiting in silent anguish as depth charges drop, followed by the requisite flying sparks, erupting fires, creaking bulkheads, breaking gauges, and gushing water. A major battle scene (when the US sub finally reaches the U-571) is confusing and therefore punchless - both sides in the close-quarters fight are wearing black rain slickers over German uniforms and it's impossible to tell who's shooting at whom. The German submarine U-571 has been disabled in the North Atlantic and US Military Intelligence has decided that Dahlgren and Tyler will disguise their sub as a German vessel and head for U-571, posing as a rescue and support ship. www.culturevulture.net /Movies/U571.htm   (612 words)

U - Movie Reviews And this movie particularly focuses on the relationship between the captain (Bill Paxton) and the XO (Matthew McConaughey) and the critical differences in their jobs. www.andrewnixon.com /movies/u.htm   (252 words)

The History Place - U-571: Movie Review U-571 differs from classic World War II sub movies such as Up Periscope and Das Boot in that there is much less quiet time. This is a fast moving action-packed war drama that will answer the question, once and for all, what's it really like to be depth-charged while you're inside a submarine. Mostow, to his credit, did a lot of personal research into the topic, brought in World War II veterans, and thus provides us with an accurate portrayal of combat in a World War II sub. www.historyplace.com /specials/reviews/u-571.htm   (505 words)

U-571 Movie Review Their 48 hour leave interrupted, the crew grudgingly slaps a Nazi insignia on the conning tower, dons those cool long black leather jackets Nazi secret agents wear, and sets off to capture a disabled German U-boat, the eponymous U-571, and its mysterious Enigma coding machine. The story, (go ahead and read because there's nothing to give away), involves a creaky old US submarine, its mostly young and photogenic crew, and a mission to change the course of World War II. The characters are a nameless blur to Katie and me. The executive officer has a distinctive accent I can't place, spends much time whispering commands into a microphone so the eavesdropping Germans don't hear. www.usdlogic.com /usd/mv_u571.htm   (632 words)

AskMen.com - U-571 Although the movie opens with some text, attempting to make viewers think they are about to view a movie based on actual historical events, they are actually in for a hellish action flick that happens to be set during World War II. In the spirit of action and war movies, almost everything that can go wrong in the mission does, but the audience goes along for the ride as members of the crew fight for their lives. Although the movie's flaws could not escape our attention, we were nonetheless entertained, and that's the bottom line. www.askmen.com /toys/movies/19_movies.html   (381 words)

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U–571 review on Maxim Online U-571, the new wham-bam submarine action movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Harvey Keitel, doesn’t bore us with wussy moralizing or tear-filled speeches. Reminiscent of old-style war movies like The Guns of Navarone or The Dirty Dozen, U-571 features uniformly tight-lipped tough-guy performances. Once this premise is established, the movie is nonstop torpedoes, harrowing last-minute escapes, and hissing leaks in the hull. www.maximonline.com /entertainment/reviews/review_movies_1879.html   (407 words)

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Review: U-571 Once Tyler's group has boarded the U-571, a German sneak attack destroys the U.S. sub, and the navy officers are forced to maneuver the crippled U-boat through enemy territory while being pursued by a German destroyer. The crew of a U.S. submarine is sent on a top-secret mission to board a disabled German U-boat and steal a secret encoding device. All of the usual plot staples are in evidence: tension between crew members, deep diving where the hull threatens to collapse, dodging depth charges, and sub-to-sub battles. movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/u/u571.html   (767 words)

U-571 movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods U.S sub crew is sent to steal an Enigma encryption device from a disabled Nazi U-boat before the Germans can send help. Review: U.S sub crew is sent to steal an Enigma encryption device from a disabled Nazi U-boat before the Germans can send help. When their own sub is sunk, the Americans, led by Lt. Tyler (McConaughey), take over the German sub and try to make their way back home through enemy destroyers. www.moviegoods.com /affiliate2/adClick.asp?affiliateID=413&adID=200&master_movie_id=10821&sku=234892   (380 words)

U-571 - Movie Preview Online Alan Jones captures the claustrophobia and the camaraderie of upcoming action drama U-571, the new film from Breakdown director Jonathan Mostow, which is set on board a WWII submarine. “During the shooting of Breakdown, Jonathan came to me and said, ‘I don’t know if you’re interested, but I would like to make a World War II movie next. Based on a real-life episode that occurred at the height of the Second World War, the all-action spectacular was filmed during early 1999 at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, where full-size, authentically detailed submarine interiors were built; and on location in Malta, where the mid-Atlantic battles were recreated in all their explosive glory. www.preview-online.com /march_april/feature_articles/u-571   (509 words)

U-571 Movie Discussion If you watch the movie all the way through, you will see that the British are given credit for being the first to capture an Enigma machine, and the Americans captured an Enigma months later. It's a shame, cause we aren't the movies that are made by the studios. It would have been a bit better for the story and the movie itself, IMO, if the director had mentioned this at the beginning of the film. www.gnovies.com /discussion/u-2d571.html   (255 words)

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