...enough nerve-wracking suspense to make your heart pound against your chest like depth charges rupturing a submarine's hull.

| Jul 30, 2023

The outcome, no matter how you look at it, confirms that it's futile to return to war but that it's also impossible to escape it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2023

Das Boot's actors look like they have lived through every sneak attack and painful claustrophobic moment in this film.

| Aug 10, 2022

Director Wolfgang Petersen has rigorously discarded war movie clichés, both American and those of the Nazi regime, to show the very human fears and real courage of Germans who battled for, and lost, supremacy of the seas.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2021

This is the finest submarine movie ever made. Although director Wolfgang Petersen emphasizes the claustrophobia of undersea life, his above-surface scenes are powerful as well.

| Nov 9, 2021

Effective as an anti-war movie and as thrilling as any disaster flick, Das Boot is a humanistic masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 21, 2021

Massively compelling.

| Mar 1, 2021

For all its intensity and excitement and fighting and destruction is, perhaps more than any other film, an anti-war film.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Das Boot comes across as cold and distant, but the work of Wolfgang Petersen is nevertheless rigorous and skillful, the actors are effective, and the camerawork is risky. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 21, 2019

Peterson has captured the teamwork, the claustrophobia and the peril of underwater warfare. He draws compelling performances from the crewmen, many of them quite young.

| Mar 29, 2019

Wolfgang Petersen's exceptional anti-war, war film is a long haul but never boring -- as the captain, officers and crew face terror, ennui, excitement and occasional joy in the North Atlantic in 1941. (Director's Cut)

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2019

Das Boot is a psychological thriller of the first order. The fact that the setting is a war is, amazingly and interestingly, only incidental to its points.

| Apr 28, 2018

Still makes compulsive viewing.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 14, 2012

Everything described in the film is authentic.

| Feb 23, 2012

Gripping and authentic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 9, 2011

The film has no qualities beyond its formal polish.

| Dec 9, 2011

The execution is second to none; taut, claustrophobic and overwhelming.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2011

Few war films are more potent than Das Boot...the ultimate submarine movie. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2011

It is unlike any other war film in that it confines the audience in a confined submarine where we digest the fear and panic of the human beings on screen. In short, "Das Boot" is a religious experience.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 24, 2009

Agripping, impressively detailed account of one harrowing voyage by a German U-boat during World War II.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2009