Pretty good film, disregard the historical inaccuracies

Rating: 6/10 (1 February 2012)

Well, the film should be viewed as a war drama instead of a historical documentary. The acting is quite good, the plot is nice and the battles shown now and then are not bad. The game series "Call Of Duty" has borrowed a lot of the battle scenes actually, like the one at the beginning of the film is played out in "Call of Duty I" and the scene where Zaitshev takes his first sniping kill is played out in "Call of Duty: World At War". The film has basically two plots: one is the love triangle evolving between the sniper, the commissar and the girl, the other is the competition between Zhaitsev and the German sniper. I very much enjoyed watching the film several times. It's a good and enjoyable drama. A lot of people will say that it is historically inaccurate, and it is, but if you disregard these, you have in your hands a pretty good film.