Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

rdolphijn As Russia has nothing to be proud of, they opened a can withfictional heroes, who are bullet, flame and steel resistant.

Alex Rosenkrantz I have no idea what all these whiny little reviewers have a problem with. Pretty much all of them say, "its not what I was expecting". Who cares what you were expecting!!! It was an amazing movie. Well done, good acting, great story, good action, entertaining, surprisingly good script. I think all the little whiny babies need to move out of their mothers basement and get a freaking life. I'm so glad I didn't follow the reviews and instead followed my instinct based on the trailer. I really loved the movie and will recommend it to others.

pesic-1 As I laboured to get to the end of this film, I kept waiting for that moment when the director would finally let the audience know why they were made to endure this tedious nonsense. Alas, the end came, and we were all left wondering what the director was thinking, what motivated him to make this film, and what he was hoping to achieve. Clearly the director assumed the topic of the Stalingrad battle had been elaborated so much that he did not want to focus on the battle itself. This certainly disappointed a lot of viewers, though, who still expected an epic battle. But in my view, it was not inherently a weakness. Thus I expected an exploration of the battle and the impact on those involved, instead of watching endless scenes of carnage. The problem is that these characters, even after more than two hours of parading on the screen and after long and tedious exposition from a narrator, remained stiff, boring, and unappealing. There is nothing taking place between these characters that even scratches the surface of a potentially good story. Nothing. It's a poorly written melodrama that no one would want to watch were it not called 'Stalingrad'. As for the battle scenes, they are utterly pointless, have almost zero impact on the plot, are utterly unrealistic, and boring. This is largely due to slow motion, something every viewer probably cursed inside himself as we were treated to 'Matrix' fight scenes in a CGI environment of 'Stalingrad'. Nobody came to see that. Not only was it boring, but it was an insult to the men who fought and died at Stalingrad. They deserved better than ridiculous fight scenes and substandard melodrama that can't even match cheap romance novels you find on the shelf at the local supermarket. This is bad film making on every level. The city looks fake due to copious use of green screen and CGI, the characters are cardboard cutouts, the plot is nonexistent, the action is directed extremely poorly, the ending is utterly disappointing, the actions of the characters are by and large nonsensical, and the whole film comes across as unpersuasive drivel that is guaranteed to bore you to death.

Luigi Di Pilla I had great expectations but I was wrong. I am disappointed because I expected some strategical combats sequences and much more suspense. Here I have seen comedy scenes that came over rather theatrically. One of the reason for me is perhaps that the characters weren't developed deep enough as we see in other great war movies as in the other Stalingrad - Enemy at the Gates, Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Der Letzte Zug, Darkness or The Pianist.Therefore I saw only two or three fight scenes and that was all. In my opinion the DVD promises too much. It works more on an humanity level. I gave 3/10 because of the well executed dark scenario places and for the message that war finally has no sense.