A good movie about the war with great performances from Rachel Weisz & Jude Law.

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2002)

"Enemy at the Gates" is a movie about World War II. Most movies about this part in the history are full of violence and murders. And in this film it isn't different. But it is always fine to see how each director sees it. The best war movie so far is "Saving Private Ryan".
This movie is quite interesting because you have a great cast again;

1.Jude Law: Vasseli (lead actor) 2.Joseph Fiennes 3.Rachel Weisz 4.Ed Harris
This movie is About the fight around "Stalingrad" in Russia. Vasseli is a Russian too but he is well known because he is so good at shooting. The Germans send Major Köning (Ed Harris) to Russia, with the intention to kill Vasseli.
A commander (Joseph Fiennes) and his good girlfriend (Rachel Weisz) support Vasseli.
For me every movie has something special also in this movie there are some interesting things to see:
-How children play an important part in the war and how they become victims. This movie has given a wonderful part to a child, Sacha. He did it amazingly .
-You could say that the movie has a slogan: "Love don't declear war".
-There is also place for a twist about the love of someone.

-You see how crazy war is.
The performances were really strong especially those from Rachel Weisz and Jude Law. They were perfect.
Joseph Fiennes was good too, but I like the acting of his brother (Ralph Fiennes) more.
Ed Harris is great too.
Also the supporting parts were wonderful.
I can't see a lot of bad things in this movie, maybe that the love in the war was idealised and the end was too romantic... but life has to go on...
Rating: 8/10