First time I cheered for the ordnance!

Rating: 7/10 (25 September 2005)

I enjoyed this movie very much. This was the first movie in which I could cheer for the ordnance...whichever way a bullet went it was going to hit either a Nazi or a Soviet.
But seriously, it showed a tight story between two protagonists, each with very human attributes (unlike their Nazi or Soviet masters) striving against each other. Their personal conflict made the siege of Stalingrad, one of the worst episodes of human conflict in the history of warfare, appear as a "mere" setting. The movie was quite well crafted and kept me interested throughout.
I liked the fact that the movie did not portray either ideology as better than the other, but rather two sides of the same coin.
The main complaint that I had was the typical Hollywood style love-interest side story. If I were crawling around the streets of Stalingrad, I would be focused on survival, rather than romance.