Das Boot (1982)

Very disappointing...

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. Das Boot showcases a very realistic and powerful catastroph that a U-Boat faced during the World War II but the destruction, death and hunger that those men faced. As far as direction goes this is a very stylish film with great underwater sequences but also a very good looking movie in general, the soundtrack was also really good especially the end credits one and as far as perfomances go i think Jürgen Prochnow was the stand out of the entire movie. Now as flaws go? the 209 running time will bother some people perhaps even tire them a little bit but overall still a really good film. (7/10)

If you think war is about glory and medals and patriotism and an evil enemy, think again. War is protrayed here to be very real, very gritty, with not much glory in the end. In stead of forcing the melodrama upon us, in stead of painting the enemy as monsters, we see ordinary men caught up in the reality of it all. This is, as the other reviewers have pointed out, a legendary movie.

In October 1941, the German Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (Jürgen Prochnow) of the U-96 U-Boat receives the war correspondent Lt. Werner (Herbert Grönemeyer) to cover the work in the submarine during their mission in the Atlantic Ocean. They sail out of the shipyard La Rochelle and along the next weeks, Werner learns the lives, loves, fear and behavior of the young crew, the veteran Captain and his officers. The skilled captain hunts British vessels to sink and dives to depths below the limit of the boat to escape from the destroyers. Near Christmas, they plan to return to La Rochelle; but out of the blue, Captain Henrich receives an order to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to go to Italy. But the captain knows how protected the area is and plans a means to lure the British Navy. Will the U-96 succeed in crossing the Strait of Gibraltar?"Das Boot" is a German masterpiece by Wolfgang Petersen with 2h 29 min. The "Superbit" director's cut on DVD with one additional hour is a supreme masterpiece of a war (or anti-war) film. It is impressive how a 3h 29 min film is never boring, keeping the viewer on the edge of his or her seat until the very ending. The claustrophobic and tense story increases the drama and the character development in this version, becoming one of the best movies in the cinema history. The German captain, officers and crew are not shown as one-dimension character or sad killing machine like in many war films, but as human beings with families and friends, very efficient in their works but with fear and other feelings. My vote is ten.Title (Brazil): "O Barco: Inferno no Mar" ("The Boat: Hell in the Sea")

Applauded by many for how realistic it is for submarine life. But I was surprised at how sloppy obvious details were overlooked. I lost track of how often the sub was in 10 - 15 foot seas and the next scene (elapsed time < 5 minutes), the water was totally flat. Or, vice-versa. In one scene the captain is tracking a destroyer in heavy seas. His periscope is constantly awash in waves, obscuring his view. Instead of ordering the sub to rise a meter or two, he maintains depth. Of course, the destroyer almost rams him. Would a real seasoned captain have made this mistake? Elsewhere in the movie, the sub receives several radiograms on the activity of other subs. Yet, he almost collides with another sub far out into the Atlantic. No radio communication between the two? In the final scene, two fighters attack the port with machine guns. Multiple bomb explosions occur (too many for two one-bomb fighters) *before* the planes arrive where the explosions are occurring. Yes, it's a movie of human interaction and survival, but where were the technical consultants tasked to ensure these kinds of mistakes didn't occur?