Das Boot (The Boat) Reviews
Top CriticEverything described in the film is authentic.
The film has no qualities beyond its formal polish.
Empire Magazine
The execution is second to none; taut, claustrophobic and overwhelming.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Groucho Reviews
Few war films are more potent than Das Boot...the ultimate submarine movie. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 4/4
ColeSmithey.com
It is unlike any other war film in that it confines the audience in a confined submarine where we digest the fear and panic of the human beings on screen. In short, "Das Boot" is a religious experience.
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| Original Score: A+
Agripping, impressively detailed account of one harrowing voyage by a German U-boat during World War II.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Just as good, some say better, than the original classic.
| Original Score: 5/5
Petersen's shooting style displays a breathtaking, if impersonal and faintly academic, virtuosity comparable to that of Lean or Coppola.
DVDTalk.com
THE submarine movie. No other sub-flick even comes close.
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| Original Score: 5/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Consistently riveting and intensely claustrophobic, the Oscar-nominated Das Boot is one of the most thrilling submarine pictures ever made in any language, and still is Wolfgang Petersen's best film by far.
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| Original Score: A
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
One of the best war films ever.
| Original Score: 5/5
Das Boot is yet another moving testament to the wastefulness of battle.
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| Original Score: 4/5
About.com
The greatest submarine movie ever made.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Reeling Reviews
Captures, perfectly, the claustrophobia of U-boat life.
| Original Score: 5/5
Spirituality and Practice
Das Boot (The Boat) is a claustrophobic, tense, and dramatically gripping film about life aboard a German U-boat in World War 11.
New Times
The closest thing to being in real submarine combat that the movies will ever present.
| Original Score: 5/5
Filmcritic.com
Every sub movie owes a debt to Das Boot for mastering the genre and setting the bar for its contemporaries.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
