![]() Story: This is apparently based on a novel. To explain that the approaching "humming" is a ship - after establishing that a ship is approaching isn't that. But the movie could be more reliant on or more telling with sound than words. Sound & Music: "We can hear more down here, than we can see up there." Keeping the music to a minimum for specific moments only or reflecting the crew's emotions is a good aspect. Later on, when they do set up destinations it's either briefly mentioned and reached right away or it's described in detail and - of course - becomes difficult. ![]() This lack of a mission led to - unsurprisingly - that the action came to them. Objective or "The Adventure": Where are they going, what's the objective or mission? Lacking the concept of where they are, which might be reflecting the sense of the crew and shifting more focus on the submarine, after all - they do have a navigator. The acting was both good and bad, it isn't short of intense death stares. None of the characters has any personality except the usual team of The emotional one, the posh one, the mentally questionable one, the missing home/relatives one and the decision-maker. I could only name ONE member of the submarine by the end of the movie - in other words, ONE of all the characters. The characters lacked any introduction - except the usual hectic one in the beginning where you are bombarded with all of the characters' names. Characters or "The Drama": Something that has been praised in the reviews before deciding to watch the movie - is pretty much non-existent. That's all the good aspects I found worth mentioning. I believe it has a good feel of authenticity due to all dialogues being in German and realistically portrayed what one would experience on a German submarine (as far as I could imagine). This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything is believable here - the effects (as few of them as there are) are great, the submarine external views underwater are outright scary, the music perfectly goes with the atmosphere. I mean this couldn`t have been done so good if they were average. For some reason the German actors really play it well. Right to the end that history showed most of them were destroyed in action. And yet there were real poeple volunteering to serve onboard of those coffins. This tin coffin reminds us of everything we`d like never to experience in our lives. The story is simple, though it`s just secondary to the main part and that is the Uboat. We sit in half- darkness most of the time anticipating hull sounds. The claustrophobia of this film is something really special. The first time I watched it I had to take breaks because I couldn`t take the tension. The This movie would have been awfully boring it wasn`t as scary as it is. This movie would have been awfully boring it wasn`t as scary as it is.
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