A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine. Forced to take the crew hostage, the Americans lay their explosives and prepare to destroy the German vessel before the Nazis can send naval backup.
30 July 1972, Reutlingen, Germany
28 April 1978, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
19 March 1964, London, England, UK
13 May 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 March 1962, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
30 June 1960, USA
1964
26 July 1968, Hamburg, Germany
28 May 1976, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
21 September 1990
4 November 1969, Uvalde, Texas, USA
8 August 1962, Kassel, Germany
1972, Witzenhausen, Hesse, Germany
17 September 1969, Hickory, North Carolina, USA
8 May 1954, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
12 October 1950, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
4 April 1957, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
26 February 1988
21 October 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 October 1973, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
19 November 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 07, 2013
... more like a Star Trek television episode
June 18, 2002
If watching a two-hour submarine movie is this nerve-shattering, imagine what the real thing must have been like.
January 01, 2000
An entertaining action-adventure flick minus the hokiness of most World War II films.
February 09, 2006
Without much charge and even less depth.
January 01, 2000
U-571 is bombastic and anonymous.
August 07, 2008
Delivers action scenes that are both visually dynamic and highly suspenseful.
July 25, 2007
I've never seen a movie as dependent on a fancy sound system.
August 20, 2008
[Both] a rousing action thriller...[and] near-parody of the rah-rah American military adventures that filled screens in the '40s and '50s. [Blu-Ray]
December 29, 2010
A very tense and exciting war movie.
July 14, 2007
The film needs something more to make it interesting and different.
July 21, 2005
It's a wham-bam bumpy ride, great fun in the old-fashioned war movie tradition.
January 01, 2000
Plays like a third-rate disaster movie -- and an assaultively noisy one at that .
