The fear what many people have about old movies whose topic demands a good depiction of a naval combat will not get a huge disappointment from 'Sink The Bismarck!'. The combat scenes are rather well done and they manage to give you an adequately good picture about what is supposed to be going on at the sea. This means that the ships and aeroplanes really look like themselves and this delightfully successful impression is the best thing you get from this movie.
The actors' part however is only little better than an superimposed commentators voice, it will never be too impressive except for More's performance as Captain Shepard. The characters could have been made somehow little more interesting, but on the other hand there's no over-acting, or over-dramatization either unless you speak of the German Admiral. The Germans' role in this movie is left to be the evil Nazis again about which the Admiral constantly remembers to remind us about. For those people who have seen 'Das Boot' this approach may be mostly nauseating. It is understandable that during the filming it hadn't yet passed too many years from the actual war and people would have associated anything that is German and military as some Nazi thing. But if you can get over it, you'll enjoy this film too.
The actors' part however is only little better than an superimposed commentators voice, it will never be too impressive except for More's performance as Captain Shepard. The characters could have been made somehow little more interesting, but on the other hand there's no over-acting, or over-dramatization either unless you speak of the German Admiral. The Germans' role in this movie is left to be the evil Nazis again about which the Admiral constantly remembers to remind us about. For those people who have seen 'Das Boot' this approach may be mostly nauseating. It is understandable that during the filming it hadn't yet passed too many years from the actual war and people would have associated anything that is German and military as some Nazi thing. But if you can get over it, you'll enjoy this film too.