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Baloney and an insult to history
An absolute travesty of history. The representation of the US being the forces who captured the Enigma machine is a crass insult to the memories of those British servicemen and women who died in action and espionage attempts (and final success) in retrieving an Enigma. What will Hollywood produce next? American scientists splitting the atom? Maybe we could have the USAF winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe in 1940, years before the yanks even entered the war? How about them sinking the Bismark?
This film is like England producing a film claiming to have landed the first men on the moon, or the hisory of the RAF ending the war in the Far East by bombing Hiroshima? or The Queens Household cavalry being the sole defenders of the Alamo?
A load of tosh and utter trite - typical gung-ho American jingoism. Alhough the producers try and put the film in context in VERY SMALL PRINT AT THE END OF THE FILM, it still tries to show the events as being factual. Disgraceful - those remembered at Chicksands and Bletchley Park must be turning in their graves.
October 2000 · Movies and TV
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U-571
4.7★ · 5,017 ratings, as of 2023