My 2 pence: I did see the movie. I liked it alot...as entertainment. Okay, so it wasn't Shakespeare, but the Bard's own sub drama, "Romeo and Juliet Get Blasted Out of the Water By Nazi's" didn't get good press. Appearently the groundlings had little knowledge or appreciation for the comlexities of undersea warfare. The story wasn't being sold as history. Matt MacConahey (sp?) said in an interview I observed, that it was a "yarn", then went on chat about the facts behind it. It wasn't promoed as a recreation of an actual incident. When the credits ran at the end, The first words visible were a dedication to the crews that boarded the real German subs to capture the cypher machines. Of the three cases were listed, the American crew were listed THIRD, in correct historical order. The Brits got top billing, as they should have. If you want to trash Hollywood for historical twistyness, just look at "JFK". Would it have been better if U571 had never been made? I think not. Since there is not likely to be any mention of the counter-intelligence story in normal public school history, ignoring many heroes on both sides of the ocean, then just maybe the movie can serve a purpose of getting some of it's audience to research the history behind the fable. BTW The Bletchley Enigma was recently stolen during an open house.