Wow all the whining. ALL war movies are chauvinist. There are scores of British made films about the war that are complete BS in terms of who did what.how many British films do we have to watch for example claiming Alan Turing cracked Engima when we know Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rozycki did. Are the Brits here going over to rate the film on Turing a "1" and noting it is jampacked with utter falsehoods?Just google: 'Enigma polish' to see BBC, Telegraph and Guardian stories on how the2014 film "imitation game" and 2001 "Enigma" both made in the UK absurdly giving credit to Turing are complete lies.And please, how a but Nolan's Dunkirk. There is a 60 year fake British narrative denigrating the French for surrendering. Well the UK, its ally just turned tail and ran unilaterally abandoning France. The abandoned French acted as the rearguard for the fleeing British troops and get no credit in that film.This is a top quality FICTIONAL action film. and an excellent one at that, If you depend on films to learn history of warfare you are already lost.

U-571 was shown recently on TV and I watched the first 15 minutes before I was compelled to check facts. I really should have known better. This movie is based on myth and not facts.

This movie uses great effects and realistic settings, but the rest is fantastic superhuman nonsense. The U-571 was never captured by Americans and was sunk with all hands off the coast of Ireland by British aircraft, so I hope nobody gets his history from this. The Germans were furthermore quite humane when treating survivors in the sea, and while they could not take them on board, they rarely shot them all or deliberately killed them. The German navy commander Karl Dönitz was not found guilty of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials. In fact, in 1942 the captain of U-156 tried to rescue survivors from a sunken British ship after radioing the allies, only to be attacked by American bombers which killed many of the survivors on the deck of the U-boat and forced it to dive, which killed the rest. The allies often killed German sailors who survived sunken U- boats or left them to die even when they could have saved them. This film is also short on realism. The German movie Das Boot was criticized by former U-boat sailors for its portrayal of depth charges being too close to the U-boat and not sinking it. Well, this movie had the depth charges a lot closer, the hull shaking like crazy, yet no rupture or major leaks occur. Depth charges don't have to hit the craft; they're designed to cause a crack or dent in the hull, and water pressure does the rest. Machine guns that fired from a German destroyer were enough to compromise the hull's integrity, but the boat still dives beyond its accepted limit after all that with no problems. The ability of a handful of men to operate a damaged foreign U-boat to achieve all these deeds and still survive to tell the tale is about as fantastic and unrealistic as you can get. It's a propaganda film with all its cheesy music, of pure good us versus pure evil them, and a pretty unconvincing one.

It's understandable for film makers to use some artistic license to portray real events. To explain something to the audience in simplistic terms rather than go into long winded in depth historical analysis. To shorten something due to the practicalities of film making etc.This film goes way beyond 'artistic license' it is frankly stupid. Whats frightening is that many people will now believe they know some history based on this awful film. It is totally inaccurate, totally implausible and totally unbelievable. The biggest insult is that the 'writers' clearly think we (the audience) are all un-educated, dull witted morons. I have to say this film is so bad, that I think the term 'writer' should be replaced with 'crayon wielding clueless chimp'.