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 enlarge | Actors: Matthais Habich, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Eva Mattes, Ron Perlman
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  376 reviews
Sales Rank: 3253
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 131
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 097363386247
ISBN: 0792172760
UPC: 097363386247
EAN: 9780792172765
ASIN: B00003CXRA
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: August 14, 2001
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Condition: This dvd is used, but gaurenteed to play. HAS NO CASE OR ARTWORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 good WW 2 Flick July 3, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the movie starts alittle slow ,and the pace begins to pick up. you are never sure until the end who is going to be killed.
 Hollywood takes on Stalingrad in a wrong direction July 2, 2001
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Finally, we have a Hollywood produced film with a story based on a major battle on the Eastern Front of WWII. However, please note that this is a film based on fiction only. Though Vasily Zaitsev was a real person and a formidable Russian sniper at Stalingrad, there is no existing documentary proof that any German sniper was specially assigned and sent from Berlin to annihilate him (you may call that "legendary" German sniper Wehrmacht Major Konig or Konings or SS Colonel Thorwald or whatever name he was given) and that the duel between him and that German specialist sniper had ever taken place. That story behind the duel was based entirely on Soviet propaganda which glorified the superhuman prowess of the Red Army. The battle of Stalingrad was a catastrophe for the Germans caused by Hitler's blunder. However, it was not the turning point of WWII in Europe as such. The true turning point was the battle of Moscow after which it was no longer militarily possible for Germany to defeat the Soviet Union and the only chance of winning the war for Germany had been thrown away. How could or would you expect the Soviet Union or Stalin "to save the world" by holding on at Stalingrad and defeating the Germans there when the Soviet Union was as evil an empire as the Third Reich? Stalin was no better if not much worse than Hitler in the treatment of his own citizens and his ambition to propagate Communism throughout the world. (Please refer to the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, the Nazi Soviet Pact in 1939, the Soviet annexation of the 3 Baltic states and the invasion of Finland in 1940). The film was well made with great special effects and the scene of the transferring of troops across the Volga river was spectacular. The setting of the film resembled very much the true battlefield of Stalingrad. That was very impressive. However, more emphasis should have been placed on the battlefield on a grand scale and the fighting spirits and sufferings of soldiers of both sides instead of the duel itself. Snipers per sec do not and cannot win a war. The ordinary foot soldiers should deserve the credit. That is particular true for the battle of Stalingrad.
The Enemy at this Gate is "Hollywood" July 1, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The opening battle scene is very well done and throughout the movie there are some very interesting scenes but, as with so many movies, its potential was not realized to make the movie more inviting to as wide an audience base as possible. There was too much emphasis placed on the "love interest" part of the story and not enough on the actual battle itself. The duel between the snipers was good but because we have to sit through all the "love interest" parts the duel becomes overly long and towards the end you just want one of them to get shot so it will be over. Finally, when we do get to the climax of the duel it is heavily dipped in Hollywood instead of ending it the way it is written in the histories.As with so many war movies the director, even if the intention is to honor those who fought and died, seem to be saying,"Thanks for all your sacrifice, but wouldn't it have been better and more exciting if it had happened this way?"
Pace of Film is Destroyed June 29, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This could have been an excellent film. It should have focused entirely on the cat and mouse tactics employed by the German Major Konig (Ed Harris) and Soviet Vassily Zaitzev (Jude Law), both snipers trying to bring the other out into the open. However, the film constantly shifts focus between the Soviet propaganda officer (Joseph Fiennes) and female Soviet soldier (Rachel Weisz) in a ridiculous love triangle. This totally destroys the pace of the film and detracts from its main subject. By the time of the denouement there is no emotion felt. The characters, the two protagonists, are never given any real depth to lend meaning to their actions and motivations. The only emotion felt, is delivered by James Horner's score during the scenes when the two men actually do confront each other. This film is an example of a lost opportunity.
A communist hero???????? June 29, 2001
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a well acted movie with Jude Law and Ed Harris. The odd thing is that how many movies protray a nonamerican hero...let a lone a communist hero. This movie tells the stroy of Vassily Zaitzev(Jude Law) amd how his keeps on snipering many Nazi's but German Major Konig (Ed Haris)is sent to kill Vassily. Great movie a must own.
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