Steineded How sad is this?

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

philip-00197 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.

Enchorde Recap: Nathan Travers is the Chief aboard the USS Swordfish, captained by the young and somewhat inexperienced Lt Cmdr Randall Sullivan. On their way home they come upon not one but two German submarines. They manage to sink one but is so damaged they must abandon ship. The few survivors are rescued by the second German submarine. However, Sullivan is infected by a contagious disease and soon it spreads among the German crew. Finally they find themselves in a dire situation, prisoners aboard an enemy submarine and lacking both fuel and supplies.Comments: Looking at the cast is enough to decide to watch this movie. Macy is a personal favorite that is cast in a little unusual role for him, in a main character in what resembles an action. Then there is Scott Caan, Til Schweiger and Thomas Kretchmann among others. Great cast, that gives a good performance. And an added bonus is that the German crew speaks German among themselves, makes it so much more plausible.However, the story is not really up to the task. Yes, clearly adequate for a movie but nothing extra. The developments are mostly clear well beforehand and there are no major twists, no real threats. It lacks a little concerning suspense. Still, it is never boring to watch, something happens all the time.A really good movie, good entertainment for a night.6/10

Michael O'Keefe At the height of Hitler's U-boat war during WWII, a courageous crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish carry out their duties under Captain Rand Sullivan(Scott Caan)and chief of the boat Nathan Travers(William H. Macy). A victory against an enemy boat is short lived; they encounter U-429 commanded by Jonas Herdt(Til Schweiger)and lose the confrontation and abandon their sinking ship. Sullivan, Travers and few survivors are taken aboard the U-boat as P.O.W's. An outbreak of meningitis spreads through the German ship. The only hope for survival for both the American's and German's is to stop the infighting caused by a mutiny; after the death of both commanders...Travers takes control of the German ship.This is a very underrated submarine flick. Also in the cast: Jeremy Sisto, Thomas Kretschmann, Rene Heger, Connor Donne, Matt Lindquist and Lauren Holly. Writing credits go to John E. Deaver. Director of IN ENEMY HANDS is Tony Giglio.

hrc_public It was very close to awful but still not as bad as the "U-571" which serves as back stopper regarding U-boat movies. The story was full of flaws and the manuscript didn't hold much water.I always try to spot the obvious details that cry out sloppiness and if realism was an issue in making this film, they didn't succeed: The filmmakers couldn't even resist the chance of making the bad ones speak "evil German" and plaster their boats with swastikas and other Nazi-symbols. The Krigsmarine was proud not to "heil" at anyone, they shook hands even with Hitler (and reluctantly succeeded with a small "heil"), and I'm sure that if a flag was brought along, it would have been the marine's own. The same goes for the swastika in the soup cup!The depth charges landed almost on top of the boats and still they survived. Some poor explosives the allies used! And then they actually succeeded downing a submerged sub with their cannons. That was impressive!I could not help being impressed of how spacious the subs seemed – and yes that the air was so clean that they were allowed to smoke in it.When the boat finally surfaces, the loose ends are tied up within 3 minutes; this was much to fast for me - and then again it wasn't. It should have stopped 90 minutes earlier. Don't watch it!Macy is a good actor but absolute no hero type. He'll always be that cracking up Fargo-guy to me.