British Russians and American Germans duking it out

Rating: Null/10 (15 April 2004)

Despite Ed Harris' American accent as the German sniper, there are no American characters to be found anywhere. Similarly, Jude Law and his fellow Russians have British accents but there are no official British characters to be found anywhere.
Jude Law is the Russian sniper who is turned into a folk hero by his newspaper printing pal and fellow soldier Joe Fiennes and later ends up competing with him for the affections of "The Mummy" babe Rachael Weisz. Naturally, Rachael favors the gun toting Jude over man of the written word Joe, which leads to jealousy on both fronts before Joe ultimately sacrifices himself to help Jude in his cat and mouse game against German sniper Ed Harris.
The acting is fine and the film looks and feels rightly gritty, but is marred by the tired scenario of the two soldier buds in love with the same woman.