Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.
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- TriviaThe U-boat in the film is called U-235. The first atomic bomb dropped "Little Boy" was made using enriched Uranium 235.
- GoofsWhen Stan went out the torpedo tube at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean virtually none of what follows is remotely realistic. Assuming that Stan didn't experience lethal blunt force trauma from any part of the process, first, he would have been met with the pressure of thousands of feet of depth in a short time span causing Barotrauma in a fraction of a second and in the time it took to flood the torpedo tube, among other things, would have caused his eardrums to rupture rendering him totally deaf, yet when he is back aboard the U-boat he is able to hear and communicate with his crew mates just fine.
Next, Stan would not have accomplished his goal of reaching the other side of the boat for two reasons. 1. He was at least 3 times deeper than the maximum depth that light can penetrate the ocean and would have been unable to see where he was going, which means Stan would have been effectively blind and deaf and unable to tell up from down or even where the U-boat was while he was swimming alongside it, and 2. he would have experienced the effects of Nitrogen Narcosis very rapidly which would have resulted in hallucinations, euphoria, and dizziness were it not for the fact that the Nitrogen found everywhere in his body would have instantly turned into an anesthesia and if nothing else would have put him unconscious almost instantly, killing him moments after the torpedo tube flooded.
Assuming an alternate reality where somehow none of these things managed to killed him in the first few seconds in water, Stan would have been far more likely to have drowned from laughter due to extreme intoxication and hallucinations than to have made it back to literally any part of the U-boat.
- ConnectionsReferences Das Boot (1981)
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not bad, could be better without the todler humor
In Belgium this was seen as never done before. A movie in a submarine. All big names of Belgium thespians are in it as dis some faces you thought, hell, that's been a while.
Starts off with a bit of humor over it, the bathtub scene and the german losing his head. Though guys who are asked for a dirty job. That reminded me immediately to those old westerns. By bringing in the humor, you don't take it all to serious and it's best you don't because the last 30 minutes things are done that just couldn't be done. Swimming for example without any protection over 100 meters down below.
But I must say, even as it has it flows, towards the end it picks up the best of it and delivers an above mediocre flick. Of course, love, racism. nationality, it's all there, full of clichés but it do works.
If the humor had been discarded it would be much better. A mixture of all those flicks with subs in it.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
Starts off with a bit of humor over it, the bathtub scene and the german losing his head. Though guys who are asked for a dirty job. That reminded me immediately to those old westerns. By bringing in the humor, you don't take it all to serious and it's best you don't because the last 30 minutes things are done that just couldn't be done. Swimming for example without any protection over 100 meters down below.
But I must say, even as it has it flows, towards the end it picks up the best of it and delivers an above mediocre flick. Of course, love, racism. nationality, it's all there, full of clichés but it do works.
If the humor had been discarded it would be much better. A mixture of all those flicks with subs in it.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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