I watched the movie, U-571. It starts out with the German Nazi submarine, the U-571. under attack and getting hit causing them to call to a re-supply ship. When the word that this submarine is hit, a group of American Navy officers leave is cut short, and they are told they are going on a special mission. Lt. Tyler, who is in charge of this Navy team, is told that him and a group of other men will act as the German re-loading ship to get the Enigma. The Enigma is a decoding device that is used so the German men on land can talk to the German submarines; this as they said is causing the U.S to not get ahead in the war. The boarding crew is told that they need to get this device without having the Germans aboard the U-571 suspicious of them, and once they get the Enigma, they need to sink it. But when one of the Germans see one of the U.S men's guns, they all start firing.
Men from both sides are running around shooting at each other, and while this is happening the U.S. men are searching for the Enigma as much as possible. Since this is Tyler's fisrt time actually fighting since he is normally only a sailor commander, he is nervous for himself and for his men. The Americans evenually find the Enigma along with a bunch of German soldier who they start putting onto their submarine. They start to get the last few men including Lt. Tyler with the Enigma onto the life boat when a torpedo hits the American submarine. Lt. Tyler and the men who weren't on the American submarine get back on the German submarine and stop it from sinking, so they can use that submarine. They're are many men who are still in the water who are alive including their Captain, but the men on the German submarine must leave them to save their own lives; this now makes Tyler in charge.
The men work to figure out how to run the German ship with the help of the two U.S men who can read and speack German. On top of trying to figure out how to run the sub, they realize that the real German reloading ship is coming and is firing torpedos at them. They successfully send out torpedos at the other subs while having four torpedos miss them and having one of their's hit the other submarine. After that they go back above water to try to save some of the men who survived the attack. They take a German man captive who says he can fix their electrical problem, but they soon find out he was lying. From here on they try to figure out their next move, but they have to do it without letting the Germans know that they have the Enigma. Lt. Tyler who has been working on becoming a captian over hears one of the soldiers say that he is going to get kicked out of the Navy and begins questioning himself on what he's been doing, but realizes this is his chance to prove himself.
The men struggle yet again when German planes and ships start coming towards them, and their captive gets loose. When they got their captive under control , Tyler came up with a plan to hit the German ship's radio station and dive under water to escape. When they were in position, they fired at the radio station and successfully hit it, but now they were all worried that the wouldn't be able to dive the submarine in time before getting hit, but it was successful. When they dove under water, the German ship began to thrown down bombs to hit their submarine. Everyone became nervous that they would get hit at any moment especially when the bombs started getting closer and something became wrong with one of the motors. Their submarine came close many times to getting and the men and boat struggled to get through this, but they never got directly hit.
Tyler then came up with a plan to go up against the German Destroyer with one torpedo and a broken motor. Many of the ship members don't believe this will work, but when he explains it to them and sounds convincing to them, they begin to believe in it. The more it gets closer to go through with his plan, they more aware the crew becomes that if this plan does not go according to plan, they will die, adn they become nervous. To convince the Germans that they have been hit, they shoot out one of their soldiers, a friend, so they will stop throwning bombs. The keep sending their sub farther and farther down, so they won't get hit, and the men again become nervous that the boat and they won't be able to take that great amount of pressure. They begin to panic when the submarine does eventually start having problems and water starts bursting out from the pipes and the boat begins to sink. But when they are able to raise the sub back up and the water stops leaking, they begin to believe again.
The bombs finally stop coming from the German ship when the dead body of their friend reaches surface, but they still can't continue on with their plan because they don't have enough pressure to fire their torpedo due to a leak inthe bottom of the submarine. To stop the leak, they send a smaller man, Trigger, down to try to stop the leak. The struggles the first to to get both leaks stop, but when Tyler convinces him that he can do it and save this mission, he goes back down to try again. While Trigger is working on stopping the leak, they begin to raise the submarine slowly, but they are relying on him to stop the leak. When they reach the surface and the German ship sees them, they begin to fire at the Americans. Just in time Trigger reaches the leak and they now have now enough pressure to fire the torpedo. They fire it immediately and it hits and destroys the German Destoyer just as planned. After they hit the Destroyer, they realize that even though Trigger reached the leak, he drowned in the proccess.
They then get on a life boat and sink the German submarine they had been on. With the Enigma they work to get back to land until they are eventually found by a U.S ariplane. This movie was based on the Battle of the Atlantic where a group of men had to does this mission.
I thought this was a good movie. It should how these men had to take great sacrifices during this war to save our country. They put their lives at risks many times by going really far under the water where the pressure was high, praying that their submarine wouldn't get hit by a bomb that could hit them at anytime, or by facing a German Destroyer with one torpedo and a broken motor. This movie defiantly showed that these men are heros.
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