AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

JLRVancouver "We Dive at Dawn" is a good, war-time action movie: heroic but no so jingoistic to be unpalatable to modern audiences. The fictional Royal Navy submarine 'Sea Tiger' goes to sea after the 'Brandenburg', a fictional German battleship. The first third of the movie, which is mostly 'home-front' scenes following the crew as they go on leave then find their leave cancelled is a bit slow, but the movie picks up when the 'Sea Tiger' leaves on the hunt. When the pray is sighted, the movie slides into the classic 'cat and mouse' game between the submarine and the battleship and its escorting destroyers. The stalking of the 'Brandenburg' is very well done as are the scenes of misleading and evading the destroyers. After the skirmish and short on fuel, the submarine heads for a Danish port to steal some diesel, a 'commando' segment that I found much less interesting than the scenes at sea. Likely due to its mid-war filming, the movies suffers a bit in realism (e.g. the German soldiers seem to be using British machine guns). I was intrigued to find out that there really were radio-equipped 'rescue floats' that had been dropped into the channel by the Germans for the use of downed Luftwaffe aircrew. The fact that the Sea Tiger encounters one of these floats that happens to be occupied by three Germans (one of whom knows a key fact about the Brandenburg's sailing) who are then taken prisoner seems a bit of a stretch. Given the cramped conditions of a WW2 submarine, I can't imagine that there would be much room for prisoners but, even at the height of the Battle for the Atlantic and a year after the Blitz, I doubt British audiences would have accepted the likely outcome of such an encounter in real life (i.e. the Germans know too much to be left on the float but taking them prisoner is not feasible, so...). Overall: a worthy entry into the "submarine movie" genre and a good example of British war-time movies.

James Smith After watching American Sniper and being so disappointed, I needed a war film fix. I needed to watch a realistic war movie portraying real characters and real challenges.To do so I had to watch a movie made over 70 years ago on a shoe string budget during war time called We Dive At Dawn. Don't get me wrong - I could have watched Generation Kill or Band of Brothers, but I decided to go with a classic British war film. If only today's 'try to be directors' with their enormous budgets would learn from these classics, movies like The Hurt Locker and American Sniper may actually have been good.Next on my viewing list is The Cruel Sea.

bob the moo The HMS Varangian is a British submarine that is currently in port, with many of the crew arguing over who gets shore leave and who has to man the tub in dock. However, all leave is cancelled whenever the Varangian is ordered to track and destroy German warship The Bardonberg. The journey to find it is dull and uneventful but the confrontation is tense and leaves the submarine struggling below the waves. Despite the moaning and complaining about the submarine life, desperate times call for desperate actions from ordinary men.Although this is a propaganda film in so much as it raises heroic pride among the audience, it is not so jingoistic and simplistic as to lose touch with reality. In this regard, the first half of the film is rather plodding in terms of action as it looks at the characters and the grind of life below the waves. The characters are not strong enough to make us care about their situations early on so it is weak in that aspect, but it is still interesting enough to watch and it is nice to see that they are not all typically "stiff upper lip" sorts. The picture of submarine life is not in that much detail (this is not Das Boot) but again at least the film is realistic in the portrayal of boredom, the risks and also the fact that the submarines were not run by computers and were far from being an exact science. The "battle" is short but still quite tense and the final fight for survival is enjoyable if rather simplistic and lacking anything beyond that of a standard war movie.The cast are mainly good; nobody really works that hard to produce "people" but they mostly avoid the clichés of the British stereotypes. Mills does have a stiff-upper-lip of course but he is also classless (as opposed to, say, the officers in In Which We Serve for example) and he is a likable character. Support is roundly good from people like Bradfield, Millar, Watling and others – it is only really in the final action sequence where the "heroic do-derring" aspect provides a few clunky moments but then those were to be expected and can be forgiven on the whole.Overall, an unspectacular movie perhaps but it manages to be quite enjoyable as a genre film while also avoiding the major problems that can too often come with a wartime propaganda film. People looking for out and out war action, or conversely for a real positive flag-waver will not be satisfied but mostly this does the business for a wet Saturday afternoon in.

marxi ***************************MILD SPOILERS AHEAD**************************We Dive at Dawn is an English made movie with John Mills in the lead role. The second time I watched the DVD version was on a big screen TV and I must say the movie is better than I thought the first time I saw it on the samll screen. May be it was the big screen viewing that helped?I still say the first few segments of the movie are muddled, but once the submarine leaves the dock and begins its mission, the movie takes off too! The search for the German battleship named the Brandenburg and the adventures which went along with it were absorbing and the detail shown in the movie are interesting!I'm increasing my rating to 7/10. If you enjoy WW II films, I think you'll find this one interesting once the submarine gets underway. Some of the men on the sub have quite a sense of humor, too!