I'm disappointed.

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2001)

Despite some excellent combat scenes the movie disappoints with cliches and a lifeless script. There is a contrived romance and a plot with more holes than any of Vasillys victims. eg Vasilly is cornered by the enemy sniper but brave girlfreind saves him by blinding the enemy sniper with a piece of broken glass. Absurd.
I am very disappointed. To see how good the film could have been see the German language film of 1993, "Stalingrad". This film is more realistic and powerful. The cold, the starvation and the terror of Stalingrad tear you apart. The civilians in 1993 Stalingrad are starving hungry, desperate people, just as they would have been in 1942, not the well groomed, well fed, posh English accented toffs in 'Enemy at the Gates'.