Now in these times seeing seven year olds playing "World at War." Also with more and more violence being in video games. Wether it's cartoon or just regular violence I thought now would be a good time to review a war movie. Now we all like a war movie. (Unless your a pacifist) If you like horror movies then you have no problem watching war movies.
Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan both give excellent views of the American campaign in Europe during World war II. But "Enemy at the Gates" it a total turn. It takes place in the battle of Stailingrad. Now I bet your thinking "Oh it's just a war movie taking place in communist Russia." Well "Enemy at the gates" defiantly goes to the top 5 war movies.
"Enemy at the gates" (like I said) takes place in the battle of Stailingrad. The prospective takes place through the legendary sniper Vasily Zaitsev. He has killed many Nazis during the war. His stories are amazing. This movie shows his story of an amazing and stressful duel against Vasliy and Nazi Germany's best sniper. There are many attempts from both snipers to take out each other. No matter what they do they can never seem to take one of them out.
Now let's talk scenery. OH MY GOD it's amazing. It's totally authentic. When I watched the behind the senses and it is outstanding on the lengths they took to make each set. They had to go to 18 countries and still nothing. They looked at rivers for the beginning scene and yet they had to resort to using a flooded cory mine. Also the bombed out buildings are amazing. You would think they actually bombed a building just to get the look. Over all scenery is outstanding. It goes over and above than what I've seen.
Now the kills. You can't have a war movie if you don't have any one getting shot and killed. Now I found a little problem with the way the kills worked. You see the guy fire. If it hits the guy you see the bullet go in. But here's were they disappointment comes in. You actually see the cut of the frame right before the guy drops dead. That disappointed me. Now it was either from laziness or time crunch. If someone gets shot in a war movie you should have fluent camera motion. But there are extreme moments of PWNAGE! In one scene you see Vasliy take a general and four guards down with only five bullets. They were also all head shots. Now I don't know if that is true. But hey it makes up for the cut frames. Once again the movie went beyond the rubric.
As you've probably seen in Band of Brothers or any other war movie you see a little romance. This movie also take some time to see Vasliy's Romantic side. In the movie Vasliy falls in love with kinda like a resistance fighter. She holds a real big grudge against the nazis. Just like Reznov from World at War. But any way they both fall in love. There is a moment in the movie were they have sex. Now I'm fine by the fact that that's in the movie. But seriously I don't need to see a five minutes of a scene of sex. It should of been two to three minutes. But the movie doesn't go long enough to see what the future held for them. Now I like the fact that they added another story to go with the drama and stress of Vasliy trying to kill the sniper. But it didn't go beyond. But still good.
So now like a video game you want to see accurate language talking. Now I'm fine by the fact that the Russians spoke english. But the Nazis also speck english. But it gets worse. You hear some side conversation of infantry just talking and it's in german. But then you see a general and the sniper talk and they talk english. WTF that is compete BS! Either have every german speck english or have them all speck german and have someone write in subtitles. The language in this movie is average. I don't give high markings for this one.
Well I think I gave enough about the movie. So here is my over all opinion. Now despite the kills and language it's an awesome movie. Pure pwnage, love, suspense, and thrills. I don't see any reason why no one would like this movie. If you don't like it them your obviously stupid any you have no taste. This is an amazing movie and I loved every minute of it.
my score 4.8/5 (AKA you must see it!!!)
*Also if there is anything I left out that I should consider putting in a different review please tell me thx ^_^ (but don't be an a** about it)
Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan both give excellent views of the American campaign in Europe during World war II. But "Enemy at the Gates" it a total turn. It takes place in the battle of Stailingrad. Now I bet your thinking "Oh it's just a war movie taking place in communist Russia." Well "Enemy at the gates" defiantly goes to the top 5 war movies.
"Enemy at the gates" (like I said) takes place in the battle of Stailingrad. The prospective takes place through the legendary sniper Vasily Zaitsev. He has killed many Nazis during the war. His stories are amazing. This movie shows his story of an amazing and stressful duel against Vasliy and Nazi Germany's best sniper. There are many attempts from both snipers to take out each other. No matter what they do they can never seem to take one of them out.
Now let's talk scenery. OH MY GOD it's amazing. It's totally authentic. When I watched the behind the senses and it is outstanding on the lengths they took to make each set. They had to go to 18 countries and still nothing. They looked at rivers for the beginning scene and yet they had to resort to using a flooded cory mine. Also the bombed out buildings are amazing. You would think they actually bombed a building just to get the look. Over all scenery is outstanding. It goes over and above than what I've seen.
Now the kills. You can't have a war movie if you don't have any one getting shot and killed. Now I found a little problem with the way the kills worked. You see the guy fire. If it hits the guy you see the bullet go in. But here's were they disappointment comes in. You actually see the cut of the frame right before the guy drops dead. That disappointed me. Now it was either from laziness or time crunch. If someone gets shot in a war movie you should have fluent camera motion. But there are extreme moments of PWNAGE! In one scene you see Vasliy take a general and four guards down with only five bullets. They were also all head shots. Now I don't know if that is true. But hey it makes up for the cut frames. Once again the movie went beyond the rubric.
As you've probably seen in Band of Brothers or any other war movie you see a little romance. This movie also take some time to see Vasliy's Romantic side. In the movie Vasliy falls in love with kinda like a resistance fighter. She holds a real big grudge against the nazis. Just like Reznov from World at War. But any way they both fall in love. There is a moment in the movie were they have sex. Now I'm fine by the fact that that's in the movie. But seriously I don't need to see a five minutes of a scene of sex. It should of been two to three minutes. But the movie doesn't go long enough to see what the future held for them. Now I like the fact that they added another story to go with the drama and stress of Vasliy trying to kill the sniper. But it didn't go beyond. But still good.
So now like a video game you want to see accurate language talking. Now I'm fine by the fact that the Russians spoke english. But the Nazis also speck english. But it gets worse. You hear some side conversation of infantry just talking and it's in german. But then you see a general and the sniper talk and they talk english. WTF that is compete BS! Either have every german speck english or have them all speck german and have someone write in subtitles. The language in this movie is average. I don't give high markings for this one.
Well I think I gave enough about the movie. So here is my over all opinion. Now despite the kills and language it's an awesome movie. Pure pwnage, love, suspense, and thrills. I don't see any reason why no one would like this movie. If you don't like it them your obviously stupid any you have no taste. This is an amazing movie and I loved every minute of it.
my score 4.8/5 (AKA you must see it!!!)
*Also if there is anything I left out that I should consider putting in a different review please tell me thx ^_^ (but don't be an a** about it)
