3 out of 4 stars.

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2001)

Bravo war scenes!
The war scenes of Enemy at the Gates and the battle of Stalingrad are the best war scenes ever made. (Except Saving Private Ryan, of course). I challenge one to name better war scenes. Though, the movie would have been better if they took out the story altogether and made a film about the battle, and not a Hollywood fabrication of a previous Soviet one. Overalla good film. Notice how I did not say `great' as it did not break any new ground. A lasting advantage this movie gives is that films about the Soviet side of the war (the most important, by a long-shot) are few and far between and almost never shown on American screens. Hopefully this will provide a booster for future movies. The film suffered from the story that included, shall I mention, a completely pointless sex scenes involving a quite a bit of massagingif you catch my driftBoth Zaitsev (Law) and Tania (Weisz) speak in their native British accentsquite strange for Red Army troopers. The film would have been a lot better if they left out the mush between Zaitsev and Weisz and told a story about two soldiers trying to kill each other. I hear this talk about how the opening scene was trying to copy Spielberg and Saving Private Ryan'. Well good for them because director Annaud did a great job. The opening battle was easily on the levelthough the movie was not. On a four star basis, Enemy at the Gates gets a three.