In Enemy Hands (2005)

It's better than the awful U 571 ( complete crap). This one at least have some interesting GCI scenes to see but the actions aboard the subs are not realistic at all. The actor who portrays the American captain ( Scott Caan) is a major problem, to. He is absolutely terrible and not suitable as a submarine captain at all ( he is a jerk and acts and looks like one all the time).

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.

This movie is running on Danish television as I write this. I watched about half of it, then I decided to abandon ship. Obvious factual errors (and I'm not even a sub-buff, although I have a general interest in military, warfare, and WW II), silly "dramatic" effects, like when Macy has a "vision" (?) of his wife aboard the German sub, the ridiculous concept of prisoners being kept chained and standing for three days, a chained prisoner with a breathing device which he spits out, etc, etc.I haven't seen much of Macy; he seems to be a competent actor, but what a waste...This movie s(t)inks. It really makes me regret I didn't buy the director's cut of Das Boot when I saw it at a fairly bargain price in a store just today. The comments here on IMDb were far more entertaining than the movie.

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.