Nice effects though.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I have watched a number of submarine movies and had high expectations. I was so disappointed, the movie is a waste of time, I just created this account to comment on this movie, it is awful. There is no urgency whatsoever, they show no fear when they are depth charged. When the captain says dive, dive he does not sound convincing. Anyone who rate this movie anything above the lowest rating is retarded.If you are still thinking of watching this excuse of a movie do yourself a favor and watch U571, Das Boot, The Red October, The Widow, Run Silent Run Deep. The submarine warfare scenes in War and Remembrance are equally awesome, hard to believe it just but a movie.

This movie is so far below awful, it defies description. I thought that U-571 was the worst, but, compared to this, U-571 rates a very strong 10.Let's start with the German side of the picture, shall we? The movie starts somewhere in the vicinity of Kiel, in Shleswig-Holstein. The German being spoken and written is Bavarian German. The two dialects are about as far apart as the Deep South and Bostonian English. They can't be further apart if they tried and, usually, cannot be understood by each other. That pretty much ends the German involvement in the film.The C-47 has a bomb sight (?!). The pilot and co-pilot are flying without benefit of headsets. The co-pilot has a bullet hole in his forehead while he struggles with an inept Japanese soldier trying to bayonet him in the throat. The Japanese soldier survives being shot. The pilot knows how to repair radios. Does the stupidity of this movie ever end? The remainder of the film centers around a small handful of American sailors. We see officers, both flag rank and commanding officers, wearing neatly groomed beards, something never done during WWII. We see one officer playing poker with the Chief and other enlisted and losing his shirt in the process. Uh, officers fraternizing with enlisted? And this officer is referred to as only "Officer" Cutter. What kind? What rank? For that matter, no one else wears any insignia of rank other than the admiral and Executive Officer Roitman. And he's wearing the insignia of an ENSIGN, the lowest officer rank. The Chief (why aren't there other Chiefs on board?) regularly pops off at officers and even slugs one. He's also under foot during Battle Stations Torpedo instead of being Diving Officer, as would normally be the case. The Captain goes ashore AND STAYS THERE! The rubber "raft" has a rigid hull.The periscope goes up and down much too slowly. This is not a good thing. The feather attracts attention. The "destroyers" look much more like corvettes. The exterior shots of the hull show rivets, not a welded hull. Torpedoes come out of the same tube or the wrong tube. The Pharmacist's Mate, a pill pusher, performs an amputation -- shall we go on? The crowning touch to this farce of a movie is when the boat is at 350'. The fans are off, rigged for quiet, and the crew is up and about carrying on as if nothing wrong was happening. They should have been in their racks, stripped to the waist and drenched in sweat.One more thing -- US submarines of that era were named after denizens of the deep, not some made-up mythical creature.If I were still on the boats, I would consign this piece of dreck to the TDU and drop it to the ocean floor.

It seemed like the old WWII submarine film Run Silent Run Deep. This has a well put together story. There are no familiar actors, but the actors do deliver a good performance. It seems to filmed in submarine because of the positioning of the shots. My friends from the VFW did enjoy the film. Submarine films are rare, but are usually appealing to a certain audience. USS Seaviper does appeal to those that look to a good story and not a large amount of special effects.I was interested and cared in the characters and what they stood for. In contrast the TV submarine film recently on TV this film at least is in the American spirit. So, in summary a well produced, acted and a film with the goal to keep our American military in a good light.

I really learned a lesson by buying this film on DVD; never, ever buy a film that has no recommendations or star ratings in the cover. This film has nothing going for it. From the outset everything is wrong; the lighting, the acting, the script, the direction..everything! The lighting has just one level. The script is wooden. The actors reminded me of the 70's series "The Love Boat", it's truly dreadful. I agree with earlier reviews which suggest that the 10 star reviews must have been left by reviewers associated with the film. USS Seaviper is barely deserving of one star. If this film were a restaurant it would be closed down by the health dept.. it really stinks. I absolutely adore films about subs, however this one should sink without trace. I'll go back to K19 and Crimson Tide.