Can see this film again and again

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2009)

I saw this film once again on cable yesterday and this time I'm writing in to put on record how great it is. I usually don't see a film twice, but there are just these few films (Seven is another one) that grip me every time I see them. Enemy At the Gates is gripping right from the first scene of the wolf in the Urals and it never looses its tension, even as it swings from the Battle Of Stalingrad to the dual between the two snipers (both Jude Law and Richard Harris are fantastic) to the politics of the Stalinist Russia (bob Koskins as Nikita Khuschev is real)to the love triangle that develops between Rachael Weisz, Jude Law and Joseph Feines along the way. What a movie. I wish I'd seen it on the large screen though. The many times I've seen it, it's always been on cable.