Movie | U-571 | Pass

A slightly less than memorable movie about Americans who get a hold of a Nazi submarine and use it to capture and escape with a top secret cipher machine.

Good action, historical inadequacies and goofs, a forgettable soundtrack and dated cinematography are alleviated by a good cast, though I would have liked to have seen more of Bill Paxton. Harvey Keitel is just too good of an actor to be wasted in this lackluster role. I wonder why he took this gig.

Director Jonathon Mostow is not one of those directors that you expect something really different from and he delivers on that promise. At the same time, he isn't terrible. Just average.

This was not a bad way to pass a cold winter evening before bed, but it doesn't quite match up to other sub classics like Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October or The Enemy Below.