Bad Movie at the Gates (Ya like that huh?)

Rating: Null/10 (16 March 2001)

Spoilers within, continue at your own risk.
I was looking forward to a war movie set in a battle that is not often portrayed in films. And in the beginning it appeared as if it would deliver... but then that pesky thing called plot and characters caught up with it.
My problems with the movie set in a nice labeled manner.
1) Everyone is Russian and German, yet they sound either very English or very American, at least TRY to sound like your character.
2) The movie degenerates into basically this for a plot 1) Ed Harris talks to kid who tells him stuff 2) Harris and Jude Law have a sniper standoff 3) Repeat steps 1 and 2, 4) Ed Harris is killed, 5) throw in a horribly forced love story (See Point #3 coming up)
3) Ahhh, the most annoying point, the tacked on, and totally extraneous love story. This is a WAR movie, if you want a love story see a romance. I could have cared less about whether or not she was alive. (that sounds horrible but meh)
4) Entirely too much bad dialogue, enough already, shoot each other! Onward to point 5.
5) Ed Harris... he is supposed to be super evil nazi sniper, we want Jude Law to get him! But, we don't, or at least I didn't, he seemed like a rather nice fellow until he hanged Sasha. Ed Harris needed to be thoroughly evil because he is the entire point of the movie.
6) Anti-Climactic Climax. Fiennes sticking his head out was so melodromatic, and when Jude Law finally kills Ed Harris I thought "well, he got him, time for credits"
So thats my gripe about this movie, I do not recommend it, (unless you like war movies with tacked on love interest, and lots of talking) in which case, run to your movie theater right now! Stop reading this and go!