May 17, 2017akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 2000 French-American WWII-wartime drama directed by Jonathan Mostow.
A German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine.
Although the film appears like a series of real events, British personnel from HMS Bulldog first captured a naval Enigma machine from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941---months before the United States had even entered the war.
The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured.
It sank in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
In any case, the film turns out a thrilling, suspenseful and extremely taut-and-kinetic piece that would keep you at the edge of your seat from beginning to end!
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U-571