A Odisseia do Submarino 96

Wolfgang Petersen's direction is an exercise in pure craftsmanship.

Das Boot is yet another moving testament to the wastefulness of battle.

This film takes all of the drama and suspense inherent in a submarine-based story and delivers it in a near- perfect package, establishing Das Boot as not just a terrific adrenaline rush, but one of the best movies ever made.

For all its intensity and excitement and fighting and destruction is, perhaps more than any other film, an anti-war film.

Set in a German U- boat during World War II, this claustrophobic suspense drama hasn't a weak bolt anywhere.

Effective as an anti-war movie and as thrilling as any disaster flick, Das Boot is a humanistic masterpiece.

Director Wolfgang Petersen has rigorously discarded war movie clichés, both American and those of the Nazi regime, to show the very human fears and real courage of Germans who battled for, and lost, supremacy of the seas.

This is the finest submarine movie ever made. Although director Wolfgang Petersen emphasizes the claustrophobia of undersea life, his above-surface scenes are powerful as well.

Peterson has captured the teamwork, the claustrophobia and the peril of underwater warfare. He draws compelling performances from the crewmen, many of them quite young.

Das Boot is a psychological thriller of the first order. The fact that the setting is a war is, amazingly and interestingly, only incidental to its points.

Everything described in the film is authentic.

The film has no qualities beyond its formal polish.

Agripping, impressively detailed account of one harrowing voyage by a German U-boat during World War II.

The film reaches right out to grab us by the neck and squeeze hard.

Suspenseful when it needs to be and intelligent in its depiction of the horrors of war and the sweaty claustrophobia of submarine life. On occasion, it's even -- pardon the pun -- deep.

You're drawn in powerfully as the crew members experience a psychologically maddening cycle of lull and storm.

Massively compelling.

Das Boot's actors look like they have lived through every sneak attack and painful claustrophobic moment in this film.

Few war films are more potent than Das Boot...the ultimate submarine movie. [Blu-ray]

...enough nerve-wracking suspense to make your heart pound against your chest like depth charges rupturing a submarine's hull.