A total tour de force.

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2013)

Stalingrad starts off gentile and jolly enough but it soon descends into an accurate viewing of what hell would be like for a group of young men who are thrown into a situation that they cannot control or have no way out of. Granted the special effects are a bit primitive but with it being twenty years old its to be expected. The battle scenes are brutal but the biggest tour de force are the scenes where the men slowly realise the only way out is death, the torture and the psychological degrade are really hard hitting. It makes you realise that not all Germans in world war two weren't evil and that in Stalingrad they too faced appalling suffering. Stalingrad is a movie that must be seen.