Das Boot
Triumph Releasing Corporation | Release Date: February 10, 1982 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
86
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Wolfgang Petersen's direction is an exercise in pure craftsmanship. [Director's Cut] Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
The most convincing war movie ever made.
100
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
At once a devastating condemnation of war and an exciting action film...The additional running time only adds to Petersen's masterfully bleak, claustrophobic atmosphere. Das Boot is by no means a pleasant experience, but it's an intelligent and emotionally gripping one that you won't forget. [Director's Cut] Read full review
100
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
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. [Director's Cut] Read full review
100
USA TodayMike Clark
A great movie just got greater, thanks to this thorough restoration. [Director's Cut; 27 June 1997, p.D3]
100
Washington PostDesson Thomson
You emerge from this experience rather like a returning U-boat crewman -- drained, blinking in the light, but oddly triumphant. [Director's cut] Read full review
90
SalonMax Garrone
Absolutely devastating filmmaking that makes you simultaneously feel the glory and the absolute futility of war. [Director's Cut] Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
One of the most suspenseful films of all time, its wartime action setting makes it easy to forget it's also one of the most spiritually righteous. [Director's Cut] Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time, it never lets us forget we're riding aboard a giant, primitive tin can, a hunk of industrial machinery that mingles the illusion of omnipotence with the reality of a floating prison cell. [Director's Cut] Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Racing through the sub, squeezing through tiny openings, director Wolfgang Petersen's camera brilliantly evokes the claustrophobia and clamor of undersea battle. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay Scott
As torpedoes shoot through the seas and depth charges pass by, carrying their whining cargo of destruction, Das Boot brings the presence of death to within a whisper of the eardrum. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
A visually spectacular film, distinguished by strong performances and brilliant Steadicam photography that snakes through the U-boat as its patrols the North Atlantic during World War II. [Director's Cut] Read full review
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