so-so

Rating: 5/10 (24 April 2005)

funny but i wasn't disappointed at all, i expected to see "typical Russians" in this movie, and it was full of them... being half Russian, and knowing the history quite well, in the first 10 minutes of the movie, i was laughing, what was than with the passing of the river? 1. they always passed the river at night, in the dark, why would they do it daytime, meanwhile the German bombers can destroy most of them... 2. what's with the weapons??? it's 1942, in the beginning of the war, the Russians had some problems with the weapons (still more than 1 for two soldiers), but in 42, at Stalingrad, nothing like that.... 3. what's with the shooting their own soldiers, in ww2, in the Russian army, there were some troops, behind who there were soldiers with machine guns, not letting them to go back, but these troops were really rare, and 95% of them were criminals from prisons, or soldiers who were court-martialed... 4.at the scene, were zajcev meets all the reporters and stuff, one guy in the background is simply steeling food from the table, just for the record, if somebody is brave enough to try it, and then caught, well he would be the one in the troops, i wrote in point 3 (if he is lucky...) 5. why in American movies Russians always dance and drink.... the soldiers back at the base, at the end of the day, they dance and sang, and so on..... this is nonsense, they had as little food and energy, that they could not do things like that, and anyway why would they celebrate???? (at the end it's OK :d)
and that's just the beginning... really a lot of historical failures, one more, really bad one: what's all that lipstick on her in war and battle???
in general, if you don't know anything about history, quite watchable, for me mainly because of Ed Harris...
5/10