U-571 Reviews
December 29, 2010
A very tense and exciting war movie.
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| Original Score: 4/5
February 9, 2006
Without much charge and even less depth.
July 21, 2005
It's a wham-bam bumpy ride, great fun in the old-fashioned war movie tradition.
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| Original Score: B
April 25, 2003
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| Original Score: 2/4
December 2, 2002
Sharply edited and vigorously directed and performed.
November 24, 2002
For all its realistic bluster, feels vaguely hollow.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
June 18, 2002
If watching a two-hour submarine movie is this nerve-shattering, imagine what the real thing must have been like.
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| Original Score: 4/4
April 17, 2001
Alas, it's a noisy, cliche-ridden, incomprehensible mess.
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 1, 2000
A slickly crafted throwback.
January 1, 2000
It's a simple pleasure watching an American movie that respects genre.
January 1, 2000
One-dimensional acting.
January 1, 2000
Plays like a third-rate disaster movie -- and an assaultively noisy one at that .
Original Score: 1/4
January 1, 2000
Script characterizations so shallow that even a lead actor as dull as Matthew McConaughey can't be blamed very much.
Original Score: 2/4
January 1, 2000
Its perspective is that of a well-drawn, reasonably thoughtful comic strip.
January 1, 2000
High marks for tension and excitement.
Original Score: 3.5/5
January 1, 2000
Manages to work up some generic claustrophobic discomfort.
Original Score: 2/5
January 1, 2000
U-571 is bombastic and anonymous.
January 1, 2000
The submarine goes deep but the story never does.
January 1, 2000
A strange, volatile mix of history and movie cliches.
January 1, 2000
Horrendously inept and vapid.