Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Claudio Carvalho 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")

the-fearless-america Das boot, a movie, which its shape mostly about thrill. Its main focus was to thrill the audiences implicitly. There is something classy about Das Boot, yeah, its thrilling concept. It thrills the audience in a unique way, not by scary scores or back-sound or surprising music, nor by cool action schemes supported by cool CGI, nor scary art-direction make-up or set decoration. Das boots thrill is about emotion and tension. Emotions about hopeless, the powerless crews who got stuck by the tension of sea war and trapped in their only self-saver tool, a submarine. The only option about dying or surviving is the main uplifting aspect to the thrills. Every new rising action or climax scenes begin, they always fall for those 2 option, whether they saves the day or sinking to death. One more good aspect is, Das Boot play and brings its thrill really slow. Sometimes they cut from the outside to the inside as the thrills begin to grow the thrill into audiences slowly. Cameras set piece to shot the tension and emotion of crew really precise. The editing seems incredibly accurate. We also can't forget the realistic impact sounds which erupt scenes, nice work by sound-effect team.When i first watch Das Boot, i realize that i never feel so much thrill before and this movie set my new standard to thrill genre. They play in one set place only (submarine) most of its duration, but the layer of its thrill is so deep which that was hard things to do as a director. Das Boot is at top tier of thrill genre movies.

Daniel Cahli A successful kind of realistic war movie. In all scenes the actors are convincing, making you feel what the marines passed in that tough days, but the more than 3 hours took a little bit far. This movie shows the second war by a perspective of a group of marines that have a hard mission. Staying inside a submarine for long time, giving and taking bombs. Like all movies of war, and in my opinion not different of the reality, the missions are pathetic. The attacks don't make much sense and usually the heroes are teenagers that don't' have a clue of the propose of what they are fighting for. If you like war movies and have planty of time, certainly Worth seeing!

Nabil Wadi I've watched quite a lot of movies and I've given the ratings in IMDb for some movies. But, this is the first review I'm composing in IMDb. Because, It'd be a shame if I wouldn't have written it, this movie deserves it.It basically focused on the underwater experience of the then U- boats. Yet, it wasn't only about diving and war, it was diversified. We could see the turmoils of war, you can't say a safe zone in War, this matter was portrayed with excellence. The urge to survive was demonstrated considering every subtle details. I just wonder, without the help of modern CGI and all, how could it be done like this.This is the best German movie I've seen in my entire life. Even as a film, this is one of the very few which can be called the best movies of all time. The best thing about this movie is, Nazis were also human, it portrayed their struggle to survive the war, to see their loved ones once again. Even if it was a bit long than other movies, yet enjoyed every bit of it. If it could be possible, I'd have given 11 out of 10 for this movie.