If you have just the slightest comprehension of what a U-Boot is and how it works, you will focus heavily on not to scream in agony, when watching this... Even the first ten minutes are hard to swallow. Where to begin? The Boot emerges, one minute later a plane attacks leading to an emergency dive. The plane shoots at the boot (but does not drop bombs for no logical reason), while everyone rushes inside. One officer notes that "the captain has gone overboard", though he could not even see wether or not he has been injured, just ducked, or is dead, or overboard, whatever. The Boot dives. Suddenly, there is an destroyer! I mean literally 10 seconds after the emergency dive! What the?!? That would mean, the destroyer would have some kind of cloaking device or travels at lightspeed cause otherwise the crew would HAVE SEEN it an HOUR AGO. Whatever. it goes on: The sonar-crewman screams histerically "Wasserbomben". Riiight. The chance of hearing the splash of bombs was minimal, but at least possible, as survivors recalled. So, what next? In the moment of dropping waterbombs, a destroyer speeds up to full speed, to avoid being damaged by the wake of detonating bombs. This is THE only moment where the destroyers can not use their sonar or ASDIC equipments. This very moment every Boot used the opportunity to break the silence and go to full speed ahead also. Guess what happens here? Frightened faces, clinging to metal pipes... And nothing. They wait to die basically. Next thing we see are hollywoodeske explosions directly above, neyt and below the Boot. *Facepalm* A bomb exploding a 40 meters away was fatal. NOTHING makes any sense here. It goes on: The interieur of the Boot is dark, the light is dim and everything is hazy green. Yeah right. That's exactly how it was. They had no lights, Nobody could see anything, but they liked the dramatic effect. That's how to work an U-Boot.
Why on earth, do we have to endure this catastrophic failures over and over again, when barely 20 years ago, filmmakers showed, how to do it right? Authentically and because of that (!) believable AND entertaining.
Do not listen to the fake reviews. This series belongs to the bottom of the ocean.
