Enemy at the Gates
I loved this movie, and I watched it many times on free for view. I am a history buff, and so much of what I have read about the Eastern Front and the siege at Stalingrad was captured. The movie was very historically accurate in many ways and was not "Hollywooded" to death. The battle between the 2 master snipers (Zaitsev and Koenig) was spectacular.
Some things that were brilliantly portrayed were: the way the poorly trained and equipped Russian boys were thrown into the melee and how many ended up as machine gun fodder for the Nazis and sometimes their own commanders, the brutality of the Russian commanders and the insanity of Stalin, the terror caused by the German Stuka JU87 dive bombers, the camoflauge and patience of a sniper, the propoganda efforts and fountains of misinformation, the comraderie, fear, and ego of the soldiers, and the war ravaged city of Stalingrad.
Jude Law and Ed Harris were excellent in their roles. Rachel Weisz is an amazingly breathtaking beauty, and Gabriel Marshal-Thomson played an excellent, complex role as the "double-agent" boy.
Enemy at the Gates was just as good and in my mind better than Saving Private Ryan and MUCH BETTER than Pearl Harbor. It is so much more than a war movie.
I loved this movie, and I watched it many times on free for view. I am a history buff, and so much of what I have read about the Eastern Front and the siege at Stalingrad was captured. The movie was very historically accurate in many ways and was not "Hollywooded" to death. The battle between the 2 master snipers (Zaitsev and Koenig) was spectacular.
Some things that were brilliantly portrayed were: the way the poorly trained and equipped Russian boys were thrown into the melee and how many ended up as machine gun fodder for the Nazis and sometimes their own commanders, the brutality of the Russian commanders and the insanity of Stalin, the terror caused by the German Stuka JU87 dive bombers, the camoflauge and patience of a sniper, the propoganda efforts and fountains of misinformation, the comraderie, fear, and ego of the soldiers, and the war ravaged city of Stalingrad.
Jude Law and Ed Harris were excellent in their roles. Rachel Weisz is an amazingly breathtaking beauty, and Gabriel Marshal-Thomson played an excellent, complex role as the "double-agent" boy.
Enemy at the Gates was just as good and in my mind better than Saving Private Ryan and MUCH BETTER than Pearl Harbor. It is so much more than a war movie.
