I must agree with Sean and believe this is an excellent movie. I haven't seen the other version he mentioned, just the late version and it gives a look into what goes on in the minds of those at war as well as what they do. I recommend this movie to anyone who has a conscience and wonders what it is like in war. This movie is very realistic and authentic as to life aboard a sub. Having served four years in the US NAVY and serving in the Cuban crisis as well as Vietnam I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The acting is good and the movie has a good plot. If You have eve been in the service or just plain enjoy a good movie I believe that you will enjoy this movie. I don't normally write a review on movies and may never do it again for all that I know but this movie was good enough or me to do so.

It is 45 minutes into the movie. The torpedo that was launched by breakaway prisoners has exploded within 5 seconds of launch. The thought that occurred to me 15 minutes earlier suddenly became stronger then my headache – "This movie is so bad that I don't want to waste any more time on it". Yes, this is movie is so bad that it does not deserve a "points for effort", because there was no effort involved in creating this movie. Production is so bad that neither bad acting nor bad directing can compete with it. First of all, all younger actors (apart from those that portray German officers) are already known as bad actors. Furthermore, I cannot stand the actors that think they are so big stars that they are above such trivia as having a navy haircut that corresponds to the period, or even to behave as real naval officer. Instead, they behave like in the crappy TV series they appeared before, and their interpretation of navy officer resembles to the occasions they were daydreaming about becoming an officer. William H. Macy behaves the same way as in "Fargo", but this is no "Fargo" and he should be a Chief of boat. The crew of German submarine looks and behaves like bunch of hooligans spiced up with few skinny drug-addicts. And that is all worth mentioning about acting. Being a history/military/WW2 fan, it hard to me to swallow thingies that are out of order. I'm not talking about replicating technical details – that is sometimes just to expensive. I'm talking about basic things like chain of command, crew number (there was about 100 men on a German sub, and only 2 are in torpedo room?!?), ridiculous orders, no one checking on vomiting prisoner and the pearl of the all (typical example of numerous inconsistencies): Radio operator (or navigator?) – There is no one! There is no supply ship! There is nothing on radio! Captain – Really? OK, lets bring the periscope up! Now… This, together with the fact that there was no mention of surface watch, means that the submarine was submerged. In that time, and today as well, there is no way a submerged submarine could receive a radio message! The sub should surface!Despite me being a history fan, I have to admit that having so many "historical" captions during movie is just way too much. There's ate least 10 captions saying "X days later, Y miles of the coast" during first 30 minutes of movie, and about 4 of them within 5 minutes. If we disregard crappy interpretation of naval rules, behavior and technology, this is still a very bad movie with awful acting. Do not waste your time, just skip to the scene where guy that looks like Borat plays another German captain. And behaves like Borat.

At the height of Hitler's U-boat war during WWII, a courageous crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish carry out their duties under Captain Rand Sullivan(Scott Caan)and chief of the boat Nathan Travers(William H. Macy). A victory against an enemy boat is short lived; they encounter U-429 commanded by Jonas Herdt(Til Schweiger)and lose the confrontation and abandon their sinking ship. Sullivan, Travers and few survivors are taken aboard the U-boat as P.O.W's. An outbreak of meningitis spreads through the German ship. The only hope for survival for both the American's and German's is to stop the infighting caused by a mutiny; after the death of both commanders...Travers takes control of the German ship.This is a very underrated submarine flick. Also in the cast: Jeremy Sisto, Thomas Kretschmann, Rene Heger, Connor Donne, Matt Lindquist and Lauren Holly. Writing credits go to John E. Deaver. Director of IN ENEMY HANDS is Tony Giglio.

It was very close to awful but still not as bad as the "U-571" which serves as back stopper regarding U-boat movies. The story was full of flaws and the manuscript didn't hold much water.I always try to spot the obvious details that cry out sloppiness and if realism was an issue in making this film, they didn't succeed: The filmmakers couldn't even resist the chance of making the bad ones speak "evil German" and plaster their boats with swastikas and other Nazi-symbols. The Krigsmarine was proud not to "heil" at anyone, they shook hands even with Hitler (and reluctantly succeeded with a small "heil"), and I'm sure that if a flag was brought along, it would have been the marine's own. The same goes for the swastika in the soup cup!The depth charges landed almost on top of the boats and still they survived. Some poor explosives the allies used! And then they actually succeeded downing a submerged sub with their cannons. That was impressive!I could not help being impressed of how spacious the subs seemed – and yes that the air was so clean that they were allowed to smoke in it.When the boat finally surfaces, the loose ends are tied up within 3 minutes; this was much to fast for me - and then again it wasn't. It should have stopped 90 minutes earlier. Don't watch it!Macy is a good actor but absolute no hero type. He'll always be that cracking up Fargo-guy to me.