Great War Movie

Rating: 10/10 (11 February 2008)

This is one of my favorite all time War movies in general, maybe because it's different two snipers vs each other is the main point to the whole movie,, yes there is a love interest in the movie and probably could have done without it,, but hey other than that.. you have Ed Harris as the Major, who is sent out by the Fuhrer himself to eliminate the top Russian Marksman,, Vasily Zietzsev. Jude Law was excellent i thought as the Russian Hero.. his love interest is Rachel Weisz who is cute and nice to look at it, but a war is the wrong place for a love story,, the two characters play cat and mouse practically the whole movie,, the scenes of the Luftwaffe when they attack on the Volga River are totally awesome i thought,, the special effect,, bullets flying,, everything was realistic i thought, the movie is very tense and well put together,, the struggle for Stalingrad in the Fall / Winter of 1942 early 1943. Stallingrad gets overrun by German's and the villagers left to survive help Zietzev in his quest for fame by trying to eliminate the German Major,, Harris doesn't appear till the 34 min. mark but is very effective all the way to the ending of the movie. There is some treachery, and backstabbing,, going on in the movie,, some people that you thought you could trust,, you can't,, i liked Bob Hoskins character prob the most, as Nikita Krushchev,, what a riot he was,, so all things considered this is a great movie,, not really to be missed at all.