The top mistakes in U-571 http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1340 en Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:55:09 +0000 8241 The film is set during the war and there is a Toyota forklift driving around in one of the dock scenes.... 8254 In the ship yard after the party, one of the navy crew is working on a sub and he is using a yellow plastic handled grinder. All tools in this era were metal handled. He's also wearing tennis shoes. 8239 In the start of the film Matthew McConaughey is sitting on a porch at a wedding reception smoking a cigar, in one shot he has a stub left then in the next it's a new one. 13365 Just after the sub surfaces and the crew arrives on the conning tower, the sub's deck is totally dry. 11598 The submarine gets buzzed by a single engine German fighter. They are somewhere between the US coast and Greenland. The Germans had no aircraft carriers nor bases in the area. Since it was not a float plane how did the fighter get there? It could not possibly have flown the several thousand miles from continental Europe.