Deadpool
03-19-2001, 06:16 AM
If you enjoyed movies like Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, you'll like this one too.
Wow....a WWII movie with no Americans around. This movie is based on a true story of 2 snipers , a German and a Russian, dueling it out amidst the battle of Stalingrad in WWII. The Battle of Staligrad was a horrific battle in which millions of German, Russian soldiers and civilians died. Many Belive this battle turned the tide of the War.
Someone did a very nice casting job. Jude Law plays Vassili Zaitsev, a simple shepherd from the Urals with a extraordinary talent with a rifle. Ed Harris is Major Koning, the steely eyed German Sharpshooter sent to eliminate. Joseph Fiennes is Commissar Danilov, a political officer who uses a Zaitsev as a propaganda poster boy. Tania is played by Rachel Weisz. (Rawr http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif ) She is basiclly the love interest and is involed with a love triangle between Fiennes and Law *yawn* how very Hollywood. In reality she was a very accomplised marksmen herself. Bob Hoskins is the quick tempered ,foul mouthed Nikita Khrushchev.
The battles in the film are epic in proportion and very Saving Private Ryan-esque. The ruins and rubble that was Stalingrad was portrayed very convincingly in this film. I enjoyed the way how the German Sniper was portrayed as cold methodical and the Russian sniper was a lacking in confidence and often very emotional. The duels were full of suspense and action. Im sure the guys would love this. What I didnt like was the love triangle between Fiennes, Law and Wiesz. I felt that this didnt really do anything for the film. I rather slowed it down and took away the momentum. Perhaps the writers put this one in to balance out the testosterone.
Vell, I give this movie 2 toes up. Didnt really want to get into a hardcore analysis of the movie, as my writing skills are a bit lacking.
Why are you still sitting in front that screen? Well...GO WATCH IT!.
Wow....a WWII movie with no Americans around. This movie is based on a true story of 2 snipers , a German and a Russian, dueling it out amidst the battle of Stalingrad in WWII. The Battle of Staligrad was a horrific battle in which millions of German, Russian soldiers and civilians died. Many Belive this battle turned the tide of the War.
Someone did a very nice casting job. Jude Law plays Vassili Zaitsev, a simple shepherd from the Urals with a extraordinary talent with a rifle. Ed Harris is Major Koning, the steely eyed German Sharpshooter sent to eliminate. Joseph Fiennes is Commissar Danilov, a political officer who uses a Zaitsev as a propaganda poster boy. Tania is played by Rachel Weisz. (Rawr http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif ) She is basiclly the love interest and is involed with a love triangle between Fiennes and Law *yawn* how very Hollywood. In reality she was a very accomplised marksmen herself. Bob Hoskins is the quick tempered ,foul mouthed Nikita Khrushchev.
The battles in the film are epic in proportion and very Saving Private Ryan-esque. The ruins and rubble that was Stalingrad was portrayed very convincingly in this film. I enjoyed the way how the German Sniper was portrayed as cold methodical and the Russian sniper was a lacking in confidence and often very emotional. The duels were full of suspense and action. Im sure the guys would love this. What I didnt like was the love triangle between Fiennes, Law and Wiesz. I felt that this didnt really do anything for the film. I rather slowed it down and took away the momentum. Perhaps the writers put this one in to balance out the testosterone.
Vell, I give this movie 2 toes up. Didnt really want to get into a hardcore analysis of the movie, as my writing skills are a bit lacking.
Why are you still sitting in front that screen? Well...GO WATCH IT!.