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Rating of
3/4
Enemy at the Gates review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 02/23/2013
"Man will always be man...There is always something to envy...there will always be rich and ppor" A fictional Battle of Stalingrad involving two top snipers. Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law) survives a massacre together with Danilov (Joseph Fiennes). The pair meets Tania (Rachel Weisz). Koulikov (Ron Perlman) aids Vassili Zaitsev in killing Major Erwin König (Ed Harris). local boy Sacha Fillipov (Gabriel Thomson) will play a huge role. The romantic angle, additional drama with Tania being shot and Danilov's story prolonged the movie. The strategies to "stay ahead" was brilliant. Soundtrack, screenplay and editing were good as well. It reminded this critic of Assassins in a war setting. Special effects and locations were realistic. The acting, obviously a given, were believable. …
Rating of
2.5/4
"Enemy At The Gates" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/27/2012
When a young Russian soldier is held up as a heroic example to the besieged citizens of Stalingrad during WWII, the Nazis send their top marksman to kill him and quell their rising hope. There's a lot about Enemy At The Gates that I admire; the opening sequence is excellent, showing the Russian soldiers as a collection of unwilling young conscripts treated like virtual slaves, used as cannon fodder and just as likely to be shot by their own officers as the enemy. The visuals are also superb, brilliantly recreating the devastated ruins of the city and Annaud's direction makes the cat and mouse game between the two snipers extremely tense and suspenseful. A steely-eyed Ed Harris also puts in a typically excellent performance as the German sharpshooter who locks horns with our hero. …
Rating of
3/4
Snipers Duel = Entertaining
Franz Patrick - wrote on 10/05/2008
I really liked the fact that this movie was set in World War II but the point of view was from the Russians. I haven’t seen many films that tried to tell the story of what happened in Stalingrad so this was refreshing and fascinating. I also liked that the core of the picture is the duel between two snipers: one is Russian (Jude Law), the other is German (Ed Harris). It’s not that hard to root for Law because of his usual puppy dog charm and Harris was an effective villain because of his cold, steely eyes. Rachel Weisz is also great in this because she is both quite bookish and able to wield a rifle. Lastly, I liked Gabriel Thomson and his spying ways. It provided something different among the exploding bombs and bullets piercing people’s bodies. Even though I thought Law and Weisz …
