Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply A Masterpiece

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I'm almost lost for words - but I'll give it a go. In all fairness I gave up after 35 minutes, so if there was a miraculous turnaround - I missed it. In Enemy Hands feels pretty much where a roll of film ended up, it presents the sort of craftsmanship we first saw when talking films took over from silent movies. This film provides little more than the fact that the characters actually can speak. The acting is, unexpectedly, poor. The dialogue is, almost amusingly, bad. The direction is below comment - so I won't.It would be nice to be able to come with a few pointers along the line "if you liked that film you may enjoy In Enemy Hands" but I cannot think of any redeeming quality. I have heard that there are people who enjoy it - so that makes this review as useless as the film. If there are different qualities of bad - this is a saddening bad film. It not the aggressive "what the hell was that" it more of a "what just happened there" - I don't know, I just know it wasn't good.

How can i start with this? OK... so i am a very big fan of war movies and especially WW2 movies. Now this is not a story about WW2....may be themed this way, but many are off topic, except of course the intro which is documentary based facts. Now movies like these and especially WW2 war movies must be so perfectly made to be running only around 90mins + So this was a very bad attempt, firstly the timing of things were wrong in the sense that the scenes were too short or long in some cases were they shouldn't be. The choice of actors was just the worse of all. German soldiers in a U boat are many more but even so, they would be ranked differently, and also behave much differently...if there was one thing that was their trait was discipline and organisation.. and here we come to the main actor, i think apart from the movie ''Fargo'' W.H Macy is the kind of actor to be used as voice in a cartoon. His lines are too flat his voice to monotonous. He speaks like an ordinary person to an ordinary family event. No passion, no expression no change of tone, nothing..just nothing... in scenes of danger happiness sadness etc his face remains unchanged, except when he speaks and you cannot distinguish weather or not his smiling with it. WW2 deserve much more powerful characters as main roles, and a careful casting of crew and technical study before being placed in such a theme. The story line is too simple with a couple of expected twists in it but for sure is the kind of movie you would listen for 3 minutes and watch it for 1.

This film came out long after Das Boot, one of the best, if not the penultimate, submarine movies ever made. Yet, this one ranks with Pearl Harbor for lack of any semblance of accuracy or credibility.Pristine white shirts and covers in a greasy environment makes you wonder what the director was thinking. Nothing remains that clean on a submarine -- EVER! The boats of both sides continuously operate submerged. Who are they trying to kid? The atmosphere inside would become lethal after 24 hours. The batteries would begin to go flat and the boat would begin to die.When at the rendezvous point with the Milchkuh, the Kaleun raises the periscope to look for the Milchkuh. Upon sighting the destroyer, the Kaleun left the periscope up, a fatal mistake. He kept it up even as he ordered a deep dive! The man has a death wish.The American destroyer must have a hold the size of Texas in order to accommodate all the depth charges it manages to drop ineffectively against this boat.The factual errors continue to mount as the film goes on.If you have a choice, avoid this film like the plague. If someone sends it to you as a gift, turn the DVD into a coaster or a flying disc toy.

It is 45 minutes into the movie. The torpedo that was launched by breakaway prisoners has exploded within 5 seconds of launch. The thought that occurred to me 15 minutes earlier suddenly became stronger then my headache – "This movie is so bad that I don't want to waste any more time on it". Yes, this is movie is so bad that it does not deserve a "points for effort", because there was no effort involved in creating this movie. Production is so bad that neither bad acting nor bad directing can compete with it. First of all, all younger actors (apart from those that portray German officers) are already known as bad actors. Furthermore, I cannot stand the actors that think they are so big stars that they are above such trivia as having a navy haircut that corresponds to the period, or even to behave as real naval officer. Instead, they behave like in the crappy TV series they appeared before, and their interpretation of navy officer resembles to the occasions they were daydreaming about becoming an officer. William H. Macy behaves the same way as in "Fargo", but this is no "Fargo" and he should be a Chief of boat. The crew of German submarine looks and behaves like bunch of hooligans spiced up with few skinny drug-addicts. And that is all worth mentioning about acting. Being a history/military/WW2 fan, it hard to me to swallow thingies that are out of order. I'm not talking about replicating technical details – that is sometimes just to expensive. I'm talking about basic things like chain of command, crew number (there was about 100 men on a German sub, and only 2 are in torpedo room?!?), ridiculous orders, no one checking on vomiting prisoner and the pearl of the all (typical example of numerous inconsistencies): Radio operator (or navigator?) – There is no one! There is no supply ship! There is nothing on radio! Captain – Really? OK, lets bring the periscope up! Now… This, together with the fact that there was no mention of surface watch, means that the submarine was submerged. In that time, and today as well, there is no way a submerged submarine could receive a radio message! The sub should surface!Despite me being a history fan, I have to admit that having so many "historical" captions during movie is just way too much. There's ate least 10 captions saying "X days later, Y miles of the coast" during first 30 minutes of movie, and about 4 of them within 5 minutes. If we disregard crappy interpretation of naval rules, behavior and technology, this is still a very bad movie with awful acting. Do not waste your time, just skip to the scene where guy that looks like Borat plays another German captain. And behaves like Borat.