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The details of the confrontation with the Nazi sub I will not reveal. Of course it goes without saying that Tyler gets a chance to take command and see if he has what it takes to sacrifice lives in order to save his men and his mission, etc. If you remember the vivid personalities of the sub crews in "Das Boot" and "Red October," you're going to be keenly aware that no one in this movie seems like much of an individual.

When they do have dialogue, it's functional, spare and aimed at the plot. Even Harvey Keitel , as the Chief, is reduced to barking out declarative sentences. The crew members seem awfully young, awfully green, awfully fearful, and so headstrong, they border on mutiny.

There's a scene where the disguised U. He's sure the plane is going to strafe them and orders the man on the deck machine gun to fire at it. His superior officer orders the gunner to stand fast. The kid screams, "Fire! Without actually consulting Navy regulations, my best guess is that kid should be court-martialed. You can enjoy "U" as a big, dumb war movie without a brain in its head.

But that doesn't stop it from looking cheesy. Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis and director Jonathan Mostow " Breakdown " have counted on fast action to distract from the plausibility of most of the scenes at sea especially shots of the raft boarding party. Inside the sub, they have the usual cliches: The sub dives to beyond its rated depth, metal plates creak and bolt heads come loose under the pressure. Better than the screenplay, anyway. In case you're wondering, the German sub on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is U, and it was boarded and captured not by submariners, but by sailors from the USS Pillsbury, part of the escort group of the carrier USS Guadalcanal.

No Enigma machine was involved. That was in On Aug. This fictional movie about a fictional U. Oh, the British deciphered the Enigma code, too. Come to think of it, they pretty much did everything in real life that the Americans do in this movie. Jon Bon Jovi Emmett as Emmett.

David Keith Coonan as Coonan. Thomas Kretschmann Wassner as Wassner. Jake Weber Hirsch as Hirsch. Jack Noseworthy Wentz as Wentz. Tom Guiry Trigger as Trigger. Will Estes Rabbit as Rabbit. Terrence 'T. Erik Palladino Mazzola as Mazzola. Dave Power Tank as Tank. Derk Cheetwood Griggs as Griggs. Matthew Settle Larson as Larson. Rebecca Tilney Mrs. Dahlgren as Mrs. Jonathan Mostow. More like this.

Watch options. Storyline Edit. In the midst of World War II, the battle below the seas rages. The Nazis have the upper edge as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. That is, until a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, and the Allies realize this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.

But masquerading as Nazis and taking over the U-boat is the smallest of their problems. The action really begins when they get stranded on the U-boat. You won't come up for air until it's over! Rated PG for war violence. Did you know Edit. Trivia The caption before the end credits, detailing the fact that the Royal Navy captured the first Enigma machine, was only added after an outcry in Britain, where it was believed that Hollywood was trying to claim the credit for the Americans whose forces captured no German Naval Enigma material until Damaged by depth charges, U surfaced and was boarded by the Bulldog's crew, who collected all the papers they could find no one spoke German, so they couldn't be selective , and an Enigma machine.

Bletchley Park already had several Enigmas at this point. Bulldog's triumph was recovering the codebooks. After the German crew is taken prisoner, Carson jeers at them: "It's your first time looking at a black man, ain't it? Get used to it! Whereas the United States in , of course, was a model of racial equality, and Never mind.

Obviously, at some point during pre-production, someone asked the question: "But how can we make this film even more ridiculous? The men successfully swipe the Enigma machine, but soon find themselves pursued by a very angry German destroyer. Quickly, they realise they must get the Enigma machine to Britain, or die in the attempt. If they are captured by the Nazis, they will be tortured, and allied cryptography may be revealed.

Or, as Lieutenant Bon Jovi might put it, "We've got to hold on to what we've got. It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not.

Whoa, oh, living on a prayer.