Bardlerx Strictly average movie

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

fwdixon Episodic, boring and about a half hour too long, this is a pure WWII propaganda film for the Merchant Marine. Watching this on DVR, I found myself fast forwarding thru much of the seemingly endless propaganda speeches that litter this picture. The performances are, at best, adequate and at worst, dreadful. Warner Brothers usual array of character actors provide little, if any, "action" to this film. Alan Hale, whom I normally find enjoyable, chews up scenery at every turn. Raymond Massey is, well, Raymond Massey. Bogie does his best with what he was given but even he can't save this turkey. Stereotypes and clichés run rampant throughout the film. Some pretty good battle scenes don't save this flick from being a two hour exercise in tedium. All-in-all, this film is best for Bogie fans and Merchant seamen.

stphifer My dad was a sonar man on a destroyer escort and made two convoys across the mid-Atlantic. I saw this film as a kid and quickly reproduced the battle sequences in the bathtub with my model ships. When it finally came out on DVD I snatched it up. It holds up through repeated viewings. I even used the burial at sea sequence in a Memorial Day Service! There is something about Bogey leading in the Lord's Prayer! I buy every WW2 naval picture I can get my hands on--but this is the best of them. If you ever built WW2 ship models, you will love the miniatures in this film-a whole convoy with escorts and a menacing wolf pack of U-boats.Another favorite is "The Enemy Below" (1957) which takes place on a DE like the one my dad was on. But that film is more personal--two ships battling each other. "Action in the North Atlantic" is on a much grander scale.

fedor8 Russkie 1: "It's a miracle!" Russkie 2: "That isn't a miracle! It's American seamanship."This is the kind of cheesy dialogue that steadily supplies the viewer in AITNA. This fairly solid little war movie, with some rather obvious occasional stock-footage, is blatant political propaganda. However, there is nothing wrong with that in times of war, especially a war against the Germans. One reviewer here refers to AITNA as a semi-documentary, which was quite a funny thing to read. So does that mean that Ed Wood's films are also semi-documentaries just because he used stock footage? Or was this guy referring to the "unbelievably realistic" dialogue here? Speaking of political propaganda films, if Michael Moore had made a movie about the war in 1943, it probably would have been called "The Nazis Love Their Children, Too", advocating that America immediately surrender. In it, he would have accused the last Republican President for causing the war in the first place.I always preferred this kind of Bogart, the type that doesn't speak through his teeth and says "dame" every 10 seconds.

Casablanca3784 Three cheers for "AITNA" because it salutes guys who are not saluted in war films, our Merchant Marines. Yes, of course we Americans pay homage to the brave peoples of Great Britain and Soviet Russia who respectively wore Hitler down and then chopped him to pieces however let us not forget that without ordnance and supplies of every type from us,both nations would not have been able to pull off their miracles.I suppose "AITNA" can be considered a movie about revenge, specifically about a certain German U-boat which did Bogart, Massey and the rest, dirt at the outset of the film however it goes deeper. It's more about the perseverance, determination and aptness of a free nation, us,to weather the storms and Nazi U-boat dangers during our runs to England and Murmansk, Russia.There are 109 acting credits assigned to this film, five of which are such Warner Brothers stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Dane Clark and Sam Levene. The story line was most interesting indeed, the battle scenes were graphic and I found all 126 minutes to be of high quality and riveting viewing.