Anti-war screed with good production values

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 2004)

Okay, this movie is a long, long, long super-duper anti-war screed dressed up as a war movie showing the horrors of the battle of Stalingrad. It is not a war movie showing the horrors of the battle of Stalingrad, however, as it spends most of its time hectoring the viewer about the idiocy of war, the immorality of war, the senselessness of war and everything else that someone can come up with to send the following message: War is bad.
This movie is also rather boring.
On the plus side, however, the filmmakers went to some length to make a rather pretty movie, with fairly decent production values throughout.