Reviews

(Contains minor spoilers)

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's rare indeed to feel that you've completely wasted your time watching a movie, but that's exactly how I feel about this movie.

There are almost as many inaccuracies in this one as there are in 'The Passion of the Christ'. The script (if there actually was one) is almost as bad as Tom Green's 'Freddy got Fingered'.

It's rare indeed to see a movie with this many stereotypes. And of course the spider hybrid thing is ridiculous beyond belief to anyone with even a passing knowledge of biology.

I may have been a bit generous, but I gave it 2 out of 10.

(minor spoilers to follow)

This is quite a difficult movie to describe.

It takes place in 2021, but it's not exactly a bright future which is presented here.

It's a sci-fi movie, but apart from an aeroplane in the beginning of the movie, nothing much looks difficult from what we see today.

It's a thriller and it takes a long time before the audience is told what's really going on.

It's a romance, but it doesn't get romantic until the second half of the movie.

To sum it up, this movie takes a long time to get going, but somehow you're captivated through the entire movie. The 100+ minutes seemed to be over VERY fast, even though most of the scenes seem much longer than typical scenes from your average Hollywood movie. I'm not sure this is a movie for anyone with a short attention span.

I didn't understand Sean Penn's part in the movie - it seemed to be completely cut off from the rest of the movie. The idea of the people in Africa who suddenly was without gravity also seemed a little far-fetched and did little more than portray an even more mysterious world.

When the movie finished, everybody stayed in their seats and nobody said a word for a couple of minutes. I know I was thinking about what I'd just seen and I think the rest of the audience did the same. For me it took a few hours to make most of the pieces fall into place.

Right now I'd say 8,5 out of a possible 10, but this may change, when I've had some more time to think about it.

Having read a couple of books on the capture of Enigma from the Germans, which is the central theme in this movie, I was shocked by the story told in this movie.

I don't know why it seems to be more important to Hollywood these days to glorify America than to tell a story the way it actually happened.

I found this movie both predictable and unrealistic at the same time.

Why is it that the heroes are able to hit an enemy with a torpedo at first try using unfamiliar equipment while successfully evading numerous enemy torpedoes ?

Why are they able to evade a destroyer and sink it using one single torpedo, which they're only able to fire, because a vital repair is finished about a split second before they had to fire the torpedo, less they be killed ? How can they do it in a uboat which is able to do little more than float ?

Why is one single American portrayed as being more clever and skillful than an entire uboat filled with Germans ?

Why are the characters in this movie so shallow, that you can predict what's going to happen to most of them ?

I was left with a feeling like I had just been subjected to a couple of hours worth of really bad propaganda.