I am drawn to any flick that has the great Robert Mitchum in it. Curt Jurgens is another, Germanic, plus. I understand that the movie sought to rise above the portrayal of midwar movies of Germans as cardboard villains, and to show them as fighters - like ours - risking their lives for their country. However the movie is curiously leaden. The incessant shifting from one submarine's command to another becomes repetitive and stifling. The movie's animus becomes the shifting strategies as each commander tries to outwit the other. This goes on just too long. Also the faux camaraderie between the two captains in the closing scenes is just not credible. The production values are good, but I don't understand the 7.4 user rating.
Review of The Enemy Below
