History, romance, friendship and action this movie got it all

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2002)

What I like the most about this movie is it`s mixture of several things that make a movie worth watching. The story takes places during WW2 in Stalingrad were a young sharpshooter becomes a hero and the russians most important weapon against the germans. While his friendship to a young politofficer make him the most important man inside of Stalingrad both guys fall in love with the same girl. This is a story by it`s own which makes the movie much more interesting of course. The rest of the story is the battle between the russian sharpshooting hero and a german sharpshooter who has a reason of his own to fight the russian sharpshooting hero. The authentic battlefield, the actors (especially Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris and Bob Hoskins) are great and play their roles very well. James Horner did another great job being responsible for a soundtrack that gives the movie some extra effort. I consider this movie to the list of my must have seen movies and one of my favorites.