At it's core, it is quite good

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2001)

When I say that, I mean that it's core being the war scenes, and of course, every scene between the two confronters, Jude Law and Ed Harris.
In 1942 Russia, the Germans are closing in and only one person can help in keeping the nazis back, a sniperman Vassili (Law) by killing the Germans by the dozens from a hiding place. But, another expert comes in named Koening (Harris, in fine form as always) who will fight to the death. The film has un-needed side plots (a love triangle doesn't sound as real in a non-fiction story) and has the British actors and actresses keeping they're accents when playing Russians (that got annoying after a while). But when you take every single moment on the screen where we see the duo of Harris and Law against each other in a cat and mouse game, you have a great war movie. If only the pesky side things weren't in the way. B+