You grew up with black and white TV. When you had a bath (once a week) the shampoo bottle was a midget submarine with John Mills in it. The soap dish was the Tirpitz. You get the picture. All your life you've had the sounds of ASDIC pinging in your head, heard the klaxons, the shouted commands, seen images of sweat pouring from the faces of terrified young men, seen the depth charges bounce off the hull, the mine cables caught on the conning tower, the burning tanker going down, the sailors drowning in the burning oil, the heroism and the brutality and all the sweep of human experience. This is a good film. Welcome to your childhood, when LEGO was for building Lancaster bombers, battleships and....submarines.
Thanks to the men and women of the R.N., M.N. & U.S.N. - Lest we Forget.
Review of Hellcats of the Navy
