Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Country: US/GER/GB/EIRE
Technical: DeLuxe 131m
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes
Synopsis:
During the battle for Stalingrad a commissar in charge of propaganda elevates a sharpshooter from the Urals to the status of national sniper hero, and the Germans respond by sending their top man to take him out.
Review:
Unfortunate war movie with a neat idea and some potential for wry political comment amid the routine Eastern front bleakness. Instead we have battle scenes out of Saving Private Ryan riding shotgun with character motivations straight out of pulp fiction (sic), all set to interminable plagiaristic note-doodling from James Horner. A pity that with the director's reputation for detail a greater sense of the topography of the battleground is not achieved; a good production, but as drama it outlives its initial promise/premise.
Country: US/GER/GB/EIRE
Technical: DeLuxe 131m
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes
Synopsis:
During the battle for Stalingrad a commissar in charge of propaganda elevates a sharpshooter from the Urals to the status of national sniper hero, and the Germans respond by sending their top man to take him out.
Review:
Unfortunate war movie with a neat idea and some potential for wry political comment amid the routine Eastern front bleakness. Instead we have battle scenes out of Saving Private Ryan riding shotgun with character motivations straight out of pulp fiction (sic), all set to interminable plagiaristic note-doodling from James Horner. A pity that with the director's reputation for detail a greater sense of the topography of the battleground is not achieved; a good production, but as drama it outlives its initial promise/premise.
Country: US/GER/GB/EIRE
Technical: DeLuxe 131m
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes
Synopsis:
During the battle for Stalingrad a commissar in charge of propaganda elevates a sharpshooter from the Urals to the status of national sniper hero, and the Germans respond by sending their top man to take him out.
Review:
Unfortunate war movie with a neat idea and some potential for wry political comment amid the routine Eastern front bleakness. Instead we have battle scenes out of Saving Private Ryan riding shotgun with character motivations straight out of pulp fiction (sic), all set to interminable plagiaristic note-doodling from James Horner. A pity that with the director's reputation for detail a greater sense of the topography of the battleground is not achieved; a good production, but as drama it outlives its initial promise/premise.