A very tense and exciting war movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Without much charge and even less depth.

| Feb 9, 2006

It's a wham-bam bumpy ride, great fun in the old-fashioned war movie tradition.

| Original Score: B | Jul 21, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Sharply edited and vigorously directed and performed.

| Dec 2, 2002

For all its realistic bluster, feels vaguely hollow.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 24, 2002

If watching a two-hour submarine movie is this nerve-shattering, imagine what the real thing must have been like.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Alas, it's a noisy, cliche-ridden, incomprehensible mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Enormously entertaining.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The submarine goes deep but the story never does.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

U-571 is bombastic and anonymous.

| Jan 1, 2000

Manages to work up some generic claustrophobic discomfort.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Mostow has fashioned something with an admirable level of purity about it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

This submarine flick has some tense moments and plenty of action.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's a rah-rah mix of patriotism and genuine suspense that manages to wring a few new wrinkles from a reliable subgenre of war movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Come on in. The water's fine.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Represents the return of something that I'd feared was gone for good: the inspired genre magician.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2000

High marks for tension and excitement.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Its perspective is that of a well-drawn, reasonably thoughtful comic strip.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Script characterizations so shallow that even a lead actor as dull as Matthew McConaughey can't be blamed very much.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000