Review of Enemy at the Gates (2001) by Tristan M — 29 Apr 2014
A movie full of historical inaccuracies, impossible shots, and headshots! This movie has so many problems. It is impossable to shoot a piece of string from 100 feet away, snipers don't shoot at the head, they're trained to shoot the chest or torso and finally nothing in the movie actually happened.
In real life Vasiliy was commander of a sniper school and got into a duel with a German sniper for three days. When he killed the German it was just an ordinary soldier. No sniper sent from Berlin to kill him like the movie.
If the movie had actually shown just his three day duel and never shown the German sniper until he killed him it would have been a pretty good movie. It also fails miserably as a love story, trying to put a women on the battlefield so Vasiliy can have romance or whatever reason they had to put it in the movie.
Its just so misplaced, you don't put a love story like that in a war movie, life dosent work like that, that you can just sleep with her in a battlefield. I hate it, they just try to glamorise war, make it all heroic.
Become a hero, kill your assailant and get the girl. War isn't like that, why add that problem to the movies already long list of problems. And the opening scene is a very sad attempt to be like Saving Private Ryan, which I think Call of Duty: World at War copied for their opening battle.
Poorly done. For a good sniper movie watch Shooter.
This review of Enemy at the Gates (2001) was written by Tristan M on 29 Apr 2014.
Enemy at the Gates has generally received positive reviews.
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