Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2004)

If you enjoy WW2 films as much as i do, then this will be for you. It is not your classic war film like Bridge On The River Kwai or The Guns Of Navarone which have classic war film actors like Alec Guiness or Gregory Peck but has Jude Law as the hero and Joseph Fiennes as friend and senior to Jude Law. The film is set in Stalingrad in 1942 during the German invasion of Russia and focuses on a real life hero Vasili Zaitsevf (Jude Law) who has grown up in the Urals. Zaitsev becomes a sniper and takes out many of the German officers forcing the German leaders to send in a professional-Major Konig- to kill him. The film also stars -Ed Harris as Maj Konig -Rachel Weisz