Better WWII-movie than Saving Private Ryan

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2001)

May include small spoilers!
Finally a WW-II-movie that gives us some scenes from behind the Russian fields! This is a movie where the nazis are nazis and the commies are commies. We love the characters, we feel with them, and despite the gross living in the completely ruined city of Stalingrad, we want too to be snipers!
Jude Law makes his best performance since eXistenZ. He is very good in the role as the Sovjet-sniper. Ed Harris as his antagonist is even better, and the two makes the movie beliveable. The tense drama between the two are great - even though they never meet until the end-scene - but never say a word to each other!
It is a beautiful drama in a very gross and terrible world. The soldiers can't trust anyone but themselves, and that isn't enough on a city that is only a huge battlefield. The complete movie is as the beginning of Saving Private Ryan - but in this movie all the action and all the war is beliveable! They actually do all this suffering for a reason!
I like this movie. Not because it is one of the first European movies to be a big action-packed, high-energy special-effects flick, but because the story is really enjoying, the love-scenes are a perfect match in the film, and FINALLY a film where females and men are equal!
Enemy at the Gates is a good movie. And it is probably one of the best war-movies ever made. And it is probably one of the best European movies to hit the silver screen. Finally, again, a European movie that can compete with Hollywood.
This film will be remembered for a long time!
Vote: 8 of 10.