This movie may seem to some like little more than boys' war games. But director Annaud, who wrote this with Alain Godard, knows how to milk the suspense.
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03/15/01
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:71
Rotten:52
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Atmospheric and thrilling, Enemy at the Gates gets the look and feel of war right. However, the love story seems out of place.
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $50,507,533
Synopsis: September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Reviews for Enemy at the Gates
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticRarely do we get to see ambitious World War II movies from a perspective other than American or British. Thanks to Enemy at the Gates it will probably be a hot day in Stalingrad before we see another one.
03/15/01
The film is worth the price of admission for its visual aspects alone.
03/15/01
The plot is pure Hollywood bunk.
03/15/01
Even with its flaws, I guess you could say that this is the best American movie ever made about a heroic Soviet sniper and his propagandist pal.
03/15/01
Enemy at the Gates has its deficiencies, but the first-rate cast is not among them.
03/15/01
Top CriticMarred by an unconvincing love triangle and an insincere dénouement, it's a story that nonetheless resonates as much as Saving Private Ryan does.
03/15/01
Plenty of parts, no excitement. Just dud grenades.
03/15/01
If too much of Enemy of the Gates is melodramatic hokum, it is redeemed by the sniper standoffs, which are models of suspense.
03/15/01
As so often happens, the good stuff gets diluted with requisite pap and banal dialogue a love triangle, lackluster sex, betrayal and redemption.
03/15/01
Its suspense, though borrowed, remains genuine, and there isn't a bad performance in the film.
03/15/01
As fascinated as I was by the historical backdrop against which the struggle occurs, I found it difficult to care one way or another about which characters lived or died.
03/15/01
Despite a strong cast and occasional flashes of creativity, the cat-and-mouse action thriller by Annaud ... is boring.
03/15/01
Annaud outdoes Speilberg in creating realistic carnage.
03/15/01
A simplified 'happy' hero's story.
03/15/01
A tiresome, unconvincing collection of war-movie clichés.
03/15/01
Elaborate, exciting and lavishly shot.
03/15/01
The cat-and-mouse scenes between the two snipers are electric.
03/15/01
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