Enemy At The Gates Reviews

A Soviet Hero is born

This story is the story set between 1942-3 and is based on the true story for the capture of Stalingrad as it was then. 1 man becomes a legon a true hero Vasily Zaitsev this is his story about he become a Soviet sniper and killed something like 150 officers.

This is one of Jude Laws finist acting performances back up by Ranolf Fines and Bob Hoskis as Kristov

Is you like ation war films this has it all

Brilliant performance of Jude Law

Jude Law gives a splendid and somewhat horrific performance as a Russian Soldier. No less memorable is Joseph Fiennes acting. Law and Fiennes performance go yet further. Deep eyes contact, warm hugs and lips nearly touching eachother giving a homoerotic taste to it, making you wonder if something else is happening between them. The rest of the cast gives fine support while the script is full of authentic dialogue and veracious detail. War films can be long, tiring and confused sometimes but in Enemy At The Gates' we have Jude Law brilliant presence making it interesting. Jude Law performance gets 10 stars.

one of my guilty pleasure movies

This is definately one of my guilty pleasure movies, I just really enjoy watching it.

I absolutely love all the shots of Stalingrad's city, the smog, the colours, absolutely spot on, with very clever direction.

The acting is solid, with maybe the exception of Weisz, she just can't hold her own in this, she's not bad, just not amazing. A very cool small part from Ron Perlman boosters the already solid cast.

Overall, not the best war movie I've seen, but by no means the worst.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Not a classic as such but a good watch

I am not sure how we missed this film on release but somehow my wife and I only got round to watching this fine movie last weekend. Set in Stalingrad, Russia Enemy At The Gates follows the true story of a Russian sniper credited with playing a major part in the halting of the German advances, this movie is lively and entertaining and mixes up war time action and drama with conspiracy and intrigue as a duel ensues between the Russian hero (Jude law) and the Germans finest marksmen played brilliantly by Ed Harris. There is plenty to enjoy for most film fans in this movie and although some parts are a shade Hollywood the majority is gritty, realistic and entertaining. After a powerful beginning the film does lose a little of the emotion generated but not enough to spoil and I would recommend to anyone whose has not yet already seen. Not a classic as such but a good watch. 4 stars.

Curate's Egg

Liked the action, but the dire script and shoehorned love interest spoilt what could have been an exciting story.

Not sure what the producers were doing here - probably too many focus groups suggesting that a tense thriller in a ruined Stalingrad would be too dark for a mass audience.

Shame really. Has good potential and some cracking scenes.

Overlooked war classic

This flopped at the box office, maybe because the US audience couldn't get to grip with Communists as heroes, despite them being our WWII allies. It's actually a very good film with a basis in historical fact . .I hope viewers would be sophisticated enough to realise even true stories are 'hollywooded' up, maybe I'm just naive. .lol

Haunting

Stalingrad is about to fall to Nazi invasion and poorly equipped trained and prepared Russian men and women are herded to the shore of the river. The film accompanies a small group of young Russian fighters and focuses on the use of sharp shooters in both camps. Good to view now 60y have passed - the suffering of war, and here seeing the Russian ideologies.. Wonderful acting by Bob Hoskins as Kreuschov! Well worth watching

Entertaining

Action. suspense, romance and tragedy. There's something in this film that will keep most people watching to the end.

Well made, well acted and, thankfully no silly 'Allo 'Allo type accents.

Almost what i expected

This is a typical hollywood film where you get what you wanted. It includes all the action andtwists that you would expect to see and although i was impressed the film lacked a certain something. I didnt really like the way that the characters were supposedly russian but talked with an american or english accent, in the same way as the germans did in the film. The storyline was ok but i dont think this is the film that i was led to belive was a masterpiece.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Enemy at the gates

Disappointing version of an historical event