Digital_excitation
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The story itself is fairly simple: A small group of Belgian rogue militia is sent to man a captured German U-boat to deliver uranium to the U.S. to build a nuclear bomb and end the war.
First of all: I watched the movie in the original languages. A Dutch IMDB-member seemed to have (accidentally?) seen an English dubbed version and wasn't to happy with that. There is a German dub ('U-235' BluRay dual audio) and apparently an English one (US International version BluRay, no dual audio sadly). Some of the Flemish is hard to understand though, especially in the first scene. It's mostly Flemish and English, some German and a tiny bit of French (elles vivre!). When the Dutch Kapitein Maes speaks English, he does so with that typical native accent, making the scene quite genuine.
The writers have adapted the Hollywood style of using factual historic moments in a fantasy action movie (like in 'The Expendables'). I'm not particularly a fan of rewriting the past in that way. That does not mean this movie is bad, I just think that the viewer needs to be aware of that in advance to avoid misunderstanding and bad movie reviews.
Some will compare this to 'Das Boot' or 'U-571', but it's not in the same league, it clearly has less budget and those movies were more true to factual history. Still, the submarine is old and genuine, the scenes shot with great care, good music score, very good performance of all actors, costume design is great and SFX are pretty good, giving it all the ambiance of WOII era. It also tells the story from the viewpoint of Belgian militia in WOII, and they are the heroes here, even though they are called 'bad eggs' and are actually hunted by the Allied Forces for war crimes (some thing they do are quite brutal, but so are the Nazi's).
No dull moments, good pace and a bit of predictable humour (you'll know it when you see it). The German BluRay-version is censored btw, it lacks two scenes (the killing of a German soldier and the last part of the medical procedure in the submarine).
Recommended for people who like foreign movies and don't care about factual WOII history.
First of all: I watched the movie in the original languages. A Dutch IMDB-member seemed to have (accidentally?) seen an English dubbed version and wasn't to happy with that. There is a German dub ('U-235' BluRay dual audio) and apparently an English one (US International version BluRay, no dual audio sadly). Some of the Flemish is hard to understand though, especially in the first scene. It's mostly Flemish and English, some German and a tiny bit of French (elles vivre!). When the Dutch Kapitein Maes speaks English, he does so with that typical native accent, making the scene quite genuine.
The writers have adapted the Hollywood style of using factual historic moments in a fantasy action movie (like in 'The Expendables'). I'm not particularly a fan of rewriting the past in that way. That does not mean this movie is bad, I just think that the viewer needs to be aware of that in advance to avoid misunderstanding and bad movie reviews.
Some will compare this to 'Das Boot' or 'U-571', but it's not in the same league, it clearly has less budget and those movies were more true to factual history. Still, the submarine is old and genuine, the scenes shot with great care, good music score, very good performance of all actors, costume design is great and SFX are pretty good, giving it all the ambiance of WOII era. It also tells the story from the viewpoint of Belgian militia in WOII, and they are the heroes here, even though they are called 'bad eggs' and are actually hunted by the Allied Forces for war crimes (some thing they do are quite brutal, but so are the Nazi's).
No dull moments, good pace and a bit of predictable humour (you'll know it when you see it). The German BluRay-version is censored btw, it lacks two scenes (the killing of a German soldier and the last part of the medical procedure in the submarine).
Recommended for people who like foreign movies and don't care about factual WOII history.