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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0097361429144
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 1422914
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Running Time: 131 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/19/2009 Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R
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Like Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates opens with a pivotal event of World War II--the German invasion of Stalingrad--re-created in epic scale, as ill-trained Russian soldiers face German attack or punitive execution if they flee from the enemy's advance. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud captures this madness with urgent authenticity, creating a massive context for a more intimate battle waged amid the city's ruins. Embellished from its basis in fact, the story shifts to an intense cat-and-mouse game between a Russian shepherd raised to iconic fame and a German marksman whose skill is unmatched in its lethal precision. Vassily Zaitzev (Jude Law) has been sniping Nazis one bullet at a time, while the German Major Konig (Ed Harris) has been assigned to kill Vassily and spare Hitler from further embarrassment.
There's love in war as Vassily connects with a woman soldier (Rachel Weisz), but she is also loved by Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), the Soviet officer who promotes his friend Vassily as Russia's much-needed hero. This romantic rivalry lends marginal interest to the central plot, but it's not enough to make this a classic war film. Instead it's a taut, well-made suspense thriller isolated within an epic battle, and although Annaud and cowriter Alain Godard (drawing from William Craig's book and David L. Robbins's novel The War of the Rats) fail to connect the parallel plots with any lasting impact, the production is never less than impressive. Highly conventional but handled with intelligence and superior craftsmanship, this is warfare as strategic entertainment, without compromising warfare as a manmade hell on Earth. --Jeff Shannon
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I hope they remake this someday and cut the love story out and tighten the script a notch. Still as it is, has great replay potential!
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The battle of Stalingrad is the most epic battle ever, and an accurate re-enactment is an education of inestimable value! How can these vermin of Stalingrad give it less than 5 stars I doin't know! (scratch scratch) Evidently they think of it as "entertainment." (scratch) The amazing moral, personal, and social insensitivity of modern Americans is, to me, quite amazing! Anyway, this film displays the incredible personal and moral courage of Russian soldiers fighting like rats in the ruins of Stalingrad. ... Read More
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If you're in the mood for a really good war flick you can't go wrong with 2001's "Enemy at the Gates." Most WWII films take place on the Western Front whereas "Enemy" is one of only two films I can think of that address the Eastern front, the other being Sam Peckinpah's underrated "Cross of Iron" (1977).
THE PLOT: The entire story takes place during the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad. Russian troops are carted in by the literal trainloads as the Germans attack/bomb the city. Once the dust clears ... Read More
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Be forewarned. This movie is about snipers. Snipers go for headshots. You do the math.
Very well done, with a portrayal of Kruschev sent to the city by Stalin to "fix" things. Stalingrad landmarks are well-portrayed in the film. The actors were good, but in some cases I think they were in miscast.
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Ok so the deul between snipers, great propoganda, not likely though. Did the Nazis want Zaitsev dead? Yes. But there were deadlier snipers in the Red Army, including a few women who had much higher kill totals then he did. Really though the Nazis send a major, head of thier sniper school to hunt Zaiysev? Doubtful. Rachel Wiesz's character is supposed to be Ukrainian, and not jewish. Apparently though every World War 2 movie about Europe has to hammer home the Holocaust in some way. Guess it's a standard receipe ... Read More
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