U-571
2000
**
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi
Das Boot had a shaggy U-boat crew who grew disillusioned about the war. The crew on U-571 is a collection of noble and cleanly shaved Americans who are determined to keep an evil German sub captain alive no matter how many times he tries to kill them. This film is a disgrace, not because it claims that the Americans (and not the British) snatched the Enigma code machine from the Nazis, but because it's a stupid, preposterous and boring action drama.
