Can you review Enemy At The Gates for me? I want to see how you rate it. Forgive moi for being so curious.

Got to remember: Curiosity exploded the cat!

Resident evil is a great movie (IMO) so if u fancy a trip to the movies, go watch that.

<strike>Movie:Enemy at the gates

Rated:R

Review:"Autumn, 1942. Europe lies crushed beneath the Nazi jackboot. The German Third Reich is at the height of its power. Hitler’s armies are charging through the heart of the Soviet Union towards the oil fields of Asia. One last obstacle remains: the city on the Volga where the fate of the world is being decided -- Stalingrad."

From this point on, we’re in for an old-fashioned World War II story with exciting action sequences, a heavy-handed musical score, and a legendary hero.

Soon in the movie we are shown a harrowing (i thought it was) combat scene were the soviets throw everything they have to the defense of Stalingrad.In the chaos of battle, two Soviet soldiers wind up in a large, ornate fountain in the city center. One of these is Sergeant Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law), a former shepherd who is extraordinarily proficient with a rifle since he grew up in the Urals shooting wolves. The other is an idealistic political officer named Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), a gifted public relations man whose combat skills are minimal. Danilov watches as Vassili kills five Germans, and the two Russians are able to get back to the Soviet lines safely.

Meanwhile, ruthless Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is determined to hold Stalingrad at all costs, partly because of its strategic importance, but also for psychological reasons: The city has been named after him. Stalin’s envoy Nikita Khrushchev (Bob Hoskins) comes to Stalingrad and warns a group of Soviet political officers, "If the Germans capture this city, the entire country will collapse." Khrushchev demands suggestions as to how to motivate Soviet troops to stand up to the Germans, and Danilov proposes, "What we need are heroes." "Do you know any heroes around here?" asks Khrushchev, to which Danilov replies, "Yes, Comrade, I know one."

With Khrushchev’s support, Danilov uses newspapers and radio to make Vassili a national hero. Vassili is transferred to a sniper unit, where he rattles German nerves by gradually picking off dozens of their officers in Stalingrad. Soon Vassili has to answer boxes of fan mail, but his writing skills are so limited that his responses are dictated by the wordsmith Danilov.

That was the basic plot.Enemy at the Gates is a heavy-handed movie, and anyone expecting subtlety will be disappointed. But I see this film as spectacle, and viewed that way, it works well. The huge battle scenes are absolutely terrific, and the sniper scenes in a department store and a chemical factory are gripping. Also, when larger-than-life characters get to make speeches -- like when Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev says, "Vodka is a luxury we have. Caviar is a luxury we have. Time is not." -- it’s great stuff.




Enemy at the Gates is a heavy-handed movie, and anyone expecting subtlety will be disappointed. But I see this film as spectacle, and viewed that way, it works well. The huge battle scenes are absolutely terrific, and the sniper scenes in a department store and a chemical factory are gripping. Also, when larger-than-life characters get to make speeches -- like when Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev says, "Vodka is a luxury we have. Caviar is a luxury we have. Time is not." -- it’s great stuff.

It’s too bad, though, that Enemy at the Gates isn’t really successful at balancing its grandiose scenes with intimate moments when we get to know two or three of the individual characters better. It seems to me that all the raw materials were present in this movie for me to be exhilarated at some moments and deeply saddened at others, but this didn’t happen because the human dimension to the story is largely missing. In particular, even though Jude Law is a good actor, his character Vassili Zaitsev is written in such a way that he doesn’t evoke much of an emotional response.

I would say that Enemy at the gates is a good but not excellent movie.The combat scenes are very good indeed but it doesnt do a very good job showing the friendship of Vassili and Danilov.It still is a good opportunity to learn a little history and be entertained at the same time.</strike>


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