Enemy at the Gates

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2006)

The critics got this film so wrong. They gave it a disgraceful two out of five stars, it should be at least three or four. The only reason being that two or three actors were miscast, I can agree Bob Hoskins as Russian Nikita Khrushchev was difficult to deal with, but everyone else was fine. Anyway, I think it is quite cool. Jude Law plays Vassili Zaitsev, a Second World War hero who managed to shoot some key German personnel, and he and his friend/news writer Commisar Danilov (Shakespeare in Love's brilliant Joseph Fiennes) are on the hunt for Maj. KÃ¶nig (a great Ed Harris). Along the way he shoots many other Germans/Nazis, and falls in love with the same woman as Commisar, German translator Tania Chernova (Rachel Weisz). With great gripping scenes, a good romance, and Weisz's great but brief arse, this is a terrific film. Ignore the critics. It was number 28 on The 100 Greatest War Films. Good!