An entertaining, edge of the seat adventure

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2001)

I had read mixed reviews of this movie...so weren't expecting too much. What I got however exceeded all my expectations. Enemy at the gates is an entertaining edge of the seat adventure that never gets boring. Go to the cinema to enjoy yourself in an exciting action packed movie. However don't expect a history lesson. Despite its grand scale battles the movie is very inaccurate. Excluding the fact that annoyingly all the actors have either American or British accents there are many other goofs such as the fact that the Russian soldiers sing the Soviet anthem...when that had been written until AFTER the Second World War. You would think that with so much money spent on this movie the producers would have realized such a gaping error! The amateur script also lets down the experience a tad...with Jude Law limited to some really terrible lines which sound even worse with his very British accent. Nevertheless despite these cons there are enough pros in the movie to make this a damn fine flick! Ed Harris is superb as the Nazi sniper sent into kill Law, Rachel Weisz is stunning as the love interest, the music (although rejects from Apollo 13) is very moving and the action scenes are superbly recreated. All in all this is worth a price of a cinema ticket. Check it out!