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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:  375 reviews
Sales Rank: 4273
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: **NO ARTWORK - NEW BLANK CASE**former rental Guaranteed to play. Normal case wear with stickers, very slight scratches. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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 Falsified to the point of farce May 20, 2001
20 out of 43 found this review helpful
Apparently this movie is getting big laughs in Russia. See the Moscow Times for a review: Made in Germany, directed by a Frenchman -- you can't even blame Hollywood this time. Tossing in Khrushchev was a nice touch, but why not go all out and add Peter the Great, Baryshnikov, maybe a few dancing bears for color.
 Saving Private Sniper May 19, 2001
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
A beautiful sniper movie, I'm not into giving out any part of a movie, but I'd just like to say that this movie was incredibly done, because it is quite hard to do a sniper movie, and be sucessful. Good casting, but a bad intertwined plot, love doesn't go in a movie except to create character depth which it didn't do. "I am 15 but my judgments should not questioned because of my age but because of my thoughts."
 Love in War. May 18, 2001
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but when I finally did I was severely disappointed. I was looking for a SAVING PRIVATE RYAN at Stalingrad, but what I ending up seeing was a love story wrapped around by one spectacular battle scene and a few interesting sniper moments. Jude Law as Vassily is the star of this film, but the most interesting and intriguing character is Major Konig played by Ed Harris. Law has a great role, but is unable to do much with it because of the romantic entanglement his character becomes involved in. However, Harris has no such distractions and is able to shine far brighter than any other actor in the movie. Overall a disappointing war movie that fails to achieve its potential and ends up being a second class romance.
What a drag! -talk about disappointing May 18, 2001
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
I couldn't wait to watch this film: it has Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Joe Fiennes and directed by the great director of Seven Years in Tibet and The Bear, what could go wrong, right? Well, everything is wrong in this film, the fight scenes are good enough, and the actors do a great job (specially Harris), but there's nothing to like about this flick: it all looks fake, the dialogues are flat, the scenes change without any order or logic (if both snipers stalked each other, how, after one of them shot somebody or something, how on earth did they return to their quarters so easily, how did they manage to cross enemy lines without being seen?). This is not a history lesson, I know, but this film shows one more time how easily impressionable and gullible, even, we -audiences- have become, how we have gotten used to watching mediocre films believing they are good, when they really stink.
A decent triller. May 17, 2001
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a viewer looking for entertianment this was a marginal success, as a serious war movie it was a faliure. This movie had some good looking battle sceanes and some well thought out sniper duels, that manage to make the movie watchable and kind of fun. However, there is a love story that distracts from the meat of the movie, and is poorly held together. If a movie is going to have a real romance during the bloodiest most brutal battle the world has ever seen, the film is going to have to make some sacrifices on its impact and how it shows the war. This movie trys to have it both ways, to be a serious movie on the battle of Stalingrad and still have a cheesy love story. This doesn't work, I didn't believe it, and watching the actors I don't think they really did either. Russia really did have female snipers in WWII, and the hero that the movie follows is believed to have had a reltionship with one of them during this battle. However, the reltionship was never really called a real romance, it was more about a couple of nervous soldiers comforting each other. If this movie had stayed closer to its roots in the novel "The War of the Rats" it would have been much more powerfull and much more relevant. This production tried to have its cake and eat it too. Too bad, this decent movie could have been really good.
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