nikolasaelg How can i start with this? OK... so i am a very big fan of war movies and especially WW2 movies. Now this is not a story about WW2....may be themed this way, but many are off topic, except of course the intro which is documentary based facts. Now movies like these and especially WW2 war movies must be so perfectly made to be running only around 90mins + So this was a very bad attempt, firstly the timing of things were wrong in the sense that the scenes were too short or long in some cases were they shouldn't be. The choice of actors was just the worse of all. German soldiers in a U boat are many more but even so, they would be ranked differently, and also behave much differently...if there was one thing that was their trait was discipline and organisation.. and here we come to the main actor, i think apart from the movie ''Fargo'' W.H Macy is the kind of actor to be used as voice in a cartoon. His lines are too flat his voice to monotonous. He speaks like an ordinary person to an ordinary family event. No passion, no expression no change of tone, nothing..just nothing... in scenes of danger happiness sadness etc his face remains unchanged, except when he speaks and you cannot distinguish weather or not his smiling with it. WW2 deserve much more powerful characters as main roles, and a careful casting of crew and technical study before being placed in such a theme. The story line is too simple with a couple of expected twists in it but for sure is the kind of movie you would listen for 3 minutes and watch it for 1.

fnj2002 It's clear that some people put a lot of work and sincerity into making this production. But that is not enough. This work was ambitious, but fails quite comprehensively. Apparently there was no technical adviser, or he was not knowledgeable, or he was not listened to.U-boat captains did not wear immaculate uniforms while on war patrol. All you have to do is watch Das Boot to know this, but it is well covered in the literature as well if you do your research.WW-II torpedoes did not have proximity fuses. Come on! This blatant error is shown repeatedly during the film.The continuity is very poor.The dialog is laughable in places. In particular, official discourse during a WW-II war patrol just is not worded like that. Watch Das Boot or Run Silent, Run Deep to hear both official discourse and conversation in WW-II submarines. A U-boat skipper saying "I can't make this decision" in the heat of battle, or a U.S. chief of the boat saying "Hold your goddamn fire" is just silly.It's silly to have US subs facing German U-boats. It was not a factor in the war; I believe there was only a single instance of it. There is rich opportunity available for a treatment of what really was a factor in the war: US subs facing Japanese vessels.Summary: inconsistency is what you get here. The premise is not without interest, but the way it was handled would have better served an episode of The Twilight Zone. Maybe that's enough. That's why I gave it 5 stars instead of 1 or 2. I couldn't give it more, however, because the execution was simply too poor.

uwew This is one of the worst and most disappointing films I've seen in a long time.The acting - mostly by the actors portraying the American crew - was awful; I actually laughed through most of it. Saving some face was the performance by the two German leads; at least I could almost imagine them as part of a U-boot crew.The script could have been written by a 12 year-old, nothing but wooden dialogue riddled with terrible clichés.What let me down the most was the lack of concern to detail. Did the producers not have an adviser of some kind on hand to help with the accuracy of the uniforms and interiors of the submarines? Some of the scenes in the American sub appeared to have been filmed on location, but the U-boat? You're kidding, right? Next to Das Boot, or even (dare I say) U-571, this film is an embarrassment and should be avoided at all costs. Macy, what where you thinking associating yourself with this project?

Michael O'Keefe At the height of Hitler's U-boat war during WWII, a courageous crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish carry out their duties under Captain Rand Sullivan(Scott Caan)and chief of the boat Nathan Travers(William H. Macy). A victory against an enemy boat is short lived; they encounter U-429 commanded by Jonas Herdt(Til Schweiger)and lose the confrontation and abandon their sinking ship. Sullivan, Travers and few survivors are taken aboard the U-boat as P.O.W's. An outbreak of meningitis spreads through the German ship. The only hope for survival for both the American's and German's is to stop the infighting caused by a mutiny; after the death of both commanders...Travers takes control of the German ship.This is a very underrated submarine flick. Also in the cast: Jeremy Sisto, Thomas Kretschmann, Rene Heger, Connor Donne, Matt Lindquist and Lauren Holly. Writing credits go to John E. Deaver. Director of IN ENEMY HANDS is Tony Giglio.