In Enemy Hands war movie

In Enemy Hands (2004, United States)

Categories: navy movies submarine movies

In Enemy Hands

Director: Tony Giglio

Czas: 95 minut

Laguages: English / German

war movies infoAdam 'Frey' Barczynski
2024-04-07 / 1970-01-01

Incident in the middle of Atlantic Ocean brings together the unlikely companions - crews of German and American submarines.

During a North Atlantic patrol American submarine USS Swordfish (a fictious one, not the real USS Swordfish that served in Pacific) is sunk by U-429 (again a fictious one, not the real one that served in Italy and Baltic Sea). Part of the American crew is taken prisoners and aboard the German boat sailors are taken by the infectious illness that may kill them. German captain has to make a tough decision - can he trust his enemies when both crews are in mortal danger?

The film that might have been interesting if the creators wouldn’t make so many so strange decisions - like mentioned above the use of real subs names to present fictious events and fictious characters, putting twenty-something actor to play the captain of the submarine (even on the training patrol it would be very unlikely to such inexperienced officer to be put in the position of captain), again making up the story that Americans did get the Enigma machine, creating a very unrealistic scenario of meeting of two submarines in the middle of the ocean (especially since American subs activity in that area was marginal), and so on, and so on. The whole project was based more on the hope that it would make an interesting story (which actually failed) rather than realism or common sense. Also the tension between characters among the crews and between the enemies are not convincing, which makes the whole project just another war flick and complete disappointment.

Our rating

4.0

Film value

4 / 10

Realism factor

2 / 5

Adventure factor

3 / 5

Historical accuracy

1 / 5

2024-04-07

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