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I had reasonable hopes for U-571, and while I usually never pre-judge a movie, I had a suspicion that no naval film could ever be as good as Das Boot. Sadly, this proved to be true. Sure, it was well made, but aren't most movies these days? I found it boring, implausible and just plain bad. (Don't read further if you haven't seen it and want to decide for yourself) Certain elements of the plot (if this movie could be said to have one) are exaggerated, wrong, or unlikely. Firstly, we all know about the fact the the British were the first ever Allied troops to use a German sub to capture Enigma. The captions at the end of U-571 that reveal this fact, and many others, seems like an admission to failure if ever I saw one. Second, the badly damaged German sub commandeered by the Americans manages to sink a German destroyer: with one torpedo shot. Visual effects show the ship practically vaporizing in one second! Now, correct me If I'm wrong: but surely one torpedo would merely hole the ship, letting it sink slowly. Even if it hit a weapons magazine, I doubt the whole ship would blow up in so violent a manner. Also, the fact that the Germans even had a destroyer in the film is dubious: Germans never made wide use of Destroyers in WWII. And the fact that they just happen to have depth charges ready to deploy is unlikely: why would they need to attack Submarines, since they just about held the monopoly on Submarine Warfare in 1942. And the ship had a distncly un-warship like appearance: sort of dumpy like a converted trawler. Overall, U-571 was the worst war movie I've ever seen. It lookd to be a hastily thrown-together film that hs no respect for detail, history, military hardware and story-telling.