Pretty good...some flaws.

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2001)

I thought of this as being 'Saving Private Ryan East', and in a way, it sure is-esp the first scenes and some of the later combat footage. I also didn't have a problem with it mostly being a 'Cat and Mouse' game of sniper vs Sniper. That was good.
Some spoilers!
You hadda like the 'crawling outta the pipes and blinding Person X with the glass shine', scene, albeit a basic Bug Bunny trick. Documentary? I don't think so guys.
I doubt you had that many Russian soldiers who looked like Rachel 'Mummy' Weisz either, she stands out as a jewel-box amongst the drudgery and chaos. She was fine, their love-scene tacked on-though I think 'love scene' and 'Rachel Weisz' is something well worth seeing myself.
I liked Ed Harris though he had a smallish role, very few lines.

I thought that the hanging scene was forced.
I thought that Joseph Fiennes role was not well written either, he went from grunt to bigwig to pal to foe to martyr like that.
And the final scenes-where Harris comes out and allows himself to be a sitting duck-HUH? I didn't buy it. I have read the actual accounts of their fatal encounter-it was the Russian shooting at a slight twinkling in the woodwork, ala most of the earlier scenes. The last one was too 'Gunsmoke' for me.
But the positives-look, scenery, the uniforms, the opening stuff, the bombing, etc. put this up into the quality end of things. I was not sure how good it would be, it was if anything better than I expected.

I also will plug Bob Hoskins and Ron 'Beast' Perlman too, always good to seem them in a flick, though Hoskins did seem to chew da scenery somewhat.
*** outta ****, not a classic but certainly a decent try.