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	DVD Review - Enemy At The Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though not particularly successful in theaters, Paramount Home Video brings "Enemy at the Gates" to DVD in regal fashion, offering viewers an opportunity to experience this very engrossing film that centers upon an intimate struggle between two opposing soldiers juxtaposed by the large-scale theater of war around them.
		"Enemy at the Gates" boasted an $80 million budget which produced not only the impressive land and air battle sequences but also full scale sets of a devastated Stalingrad that are incredible to behold.
		Paramount Home Video presents "Enemy at the Gates" in a stunning transfer that is presented in anamorphic widescreen, preserving the film’s original aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/enemy_at_the_gates.shtml (898 words)

	Enemy at the Gates
		Ripley) in writer/director Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Enemy at the Gates."
		Annaud's "Enemy at the Gates" is a rousing historical drama and worthy addition to the recent revival of WWII films.
		This is where "Enemy at the Gates" runs into trouble - the battle of the snipers takes a back seat to the love story and the film suffers for the change of focus.
	www.reelingreviews.com /enemyatthegates.htm (1645 words)

	Enemy at the Gates (Soundtrack) by James Horner
		Enemy at the Gates is certainly filled with classic Horner signatures, but wrapped around the familiar are a number of touches that make this a solid effort from James Horner.
		Enemy at the Gates is disappointing when thought about in the context of so many of James Horner's scores from the 1990's.
		Enemy at the Gates is a good score if it can be judged in isolation.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/enemygates.htm (964 words)

	Enemy at the Gates (2001): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Enemy at the Gates has its deficiencies, but the first-rate cast is not among them.
		Enemy at the Gates is a disappointment primarily because it seems so rich with possibilities.
		Enemy at the Gates is reasonably impressive in its depiction of the battle of Stalingrad but Anneaud possesses nothing like the keen cinematic sense or controlled dynamism of Spielberg to make it anything more than a haphazard spectacle.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/enemyatthegates (1487 words)

	Filmtracks: Enemy at the Gates (James Horner)
		While his war epics are no doubt a tougher listening experience for casual Horner fans, Enemy at the Gates is a score of such an enormous magnitude that it may be of interest simply because of the sheer volume of massive sound which it consists of.
		For Enemy at the Gates, Horner takes this motif and blasts it repeatedly, almost with malice, until you reach such a point that you cannot listen to it anymore.
		Enemy at the Gates: (James Horner) Now I don't consider myself a huge James Horner fan, but when I consider that over 1/3 of my soundtrack collection at the moment is done by Horner, well, maybe I am misjudging things...
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/enemy_gates.html (1658 words)

	Liquidtheater.Com: Enemy at the Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Enemy at the Gates is another in a string of realistic war pictures that has come out since Saving Private Ryan.
		Enemy at the Gates is a different kind of war movie for a couple of reasons.
		Enemy at the Gates follows the short lifespan career of a Soviet sniper during the invasion of Nazi Germany into Stalingrad.
	liquidtheater.com /review_381.html (542 words)

	Enemy at the Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At times, Enemy of the Gates is taut and compelling, and at other times, it borders on okay.
		Enemy at the Gates focuses on Vassili and Tania rather than the growing fracture between Vassili and Danilov.
		Still, Enemy at the Gates switches back and forth between Konig and Tania, lessening the overall tension, which reflects upon the movie as a whole.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/enemy_at_the_gates.html (605 words)

	Dvd Shop >> Enemy at the Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Case in point Enemy At The Gates is a good war film, with subtle sub-plots, that are guranteed to make you root for Vassili, even though you may not like the Russians at the time.
		Enemy at the Gates is a big winner because it shows the true harsh reality of war.
		Enemy at the Gates will probably be on my top 15, if not 10, of the year 2001.
	www.advancingwomen.com /dvdshop/index.php?Operation=CustomerReviews&ItemId=B00003CXRA&ReviewPage=32 (1213 words)

	Enemy at the Gates (2001): Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris - PopMatters Film Review
		Enemy at the Gates, hoping to present a fairly uncomplicated view of the war on the Eastern front, focuses less on this silence, and more on the Russian media's role in motivating that nation's army to its eventual victory over Nazi imperialism.
		Enemy at the Gates takes as its source a historical footnote to the battle for Stalingrad -- the rise in the Russian army of a preternaturally gifted sniper, Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law), whose skill at picking off German officers is so prodigious that it elevates him to the status of a hero.
		This is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/e/enemy-at-the-gates.shtml (1378 words)

	'Enemy at the Gates'
		Horrific battle doesn't stop a romantic triangle in 'Enemy at the Gates'
		At any rate, Bogie's sentiments get put to the test again in "Enemy at the Gates," an account of the Battle of Stalingrad that again comes down to a story of two men in love with the same woman.
		"Enemy at the Gates" doesn't find the perfect balance, but it juggles enough intrigues to sustain itself.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20010316enemy9.asp (768 words)

	Enemy at the Gates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, adapted from the David L. Robbins book called The War of the Rats.
		Robbins borrowed elements from William Craig's book "Enemy at the Gates" which describe the events surrounding during the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943.
		William Craig's book "Enemy at the Gates" however, states that although Zaitsev and Konig fought against each other in combat, the sequence of events in the film are almost entirely fictional.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enemy_at_the_Gates (2053 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Enemy At The Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thankfully, "Enemy at the Gates" is a mostly positive return for the director, who is lucky enough to be accompanied by a top-notch cast and with an eighty million dollar budget at his disposal.
		As is, "Gates" is a very good and occasionally great film - but it could have been an outstanding one had the film been able to tighten its focus upon the battle between these two characters in the middle of the larger war.
		Aside from a few very minor bumps, "Enemy at the Gates" is the most impressive work in terms of image quality that the studio has produced in quite some time.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=2418 (1232 words)

	Enemy at the Gates
		ENEMY AT THE GATES is a little unsure of what it wants to become.
		But, alas, ENEMY AT THE GATES does not simply decide to abandon an accurate portrayal of the battle for Stalingrad for a more focused piece on these two snipers.
		Overall, "Enemy at the Gates" is a rather bland World War II epic.
	www.i-love-cats.com /cat-supplies/Cat-418038-B00003CXRA-Enemy_at_the_Gates.html (2582 words)

	Enemy at the Gates (US - DVD R1) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
		Enemy at the Gates received a lot of criticism from the press for its strange use of accents in the film.
		Enemy at the Gates is presented anamorphically in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and is enhanced for 16:9 televisions.
		It’s nice to see a film convey the Russian side of the war for once, and for that Enemy at the Gates should be applauded, however the accents are off-putting and the love story and subsequent sex scene seem tacked on simply to bring in a younger audience.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/enemy-at-the-gates.html (1404 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Enemy At The Gates
		In “Enemy”, Annaud does a brilliant job of making the world of falling Stalingrad as believable and as powerful as one could imagine.
		Enemy at the Gates is set during the battle of Stalingrad during WWII.
		Bottom Line: Enemy at the Gates is an excellent piece of entertainment during the usually slow month for movies of March.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/enemyatthegates.shtml (1674 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Enemy at the Gates (2001)
		Enemy at the Gates does portray Zaitsev as a hero (this is a movie, after all), but not exactly the same hero depicted by the Soviet press.
		The most egregious fiction perpetrated by the film is not any of Zaitsev's achievements, but the shameless, embarrassingly manipulative use of a young boy, Sasha (Gabriel Thomson), who shuttles back and forth between the lines as a spy, to play on the emotions of the audience.
		Though the film is logically uneven and misses the opportunity to tell the story of a fascinating and historically crucial conflict, it's not the worst two hours spent at the movies especially when one considers the inane action/adventure movies that will likely be polluting multiplexes by Memorial Day.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/e/enemyatthegates.htm (759 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Enemy at the Gates
		This noted, consider Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy at the Gates, a film that debuted just a few months before Pearl Harbor, and which also happens to be fairly intelligent and entertaining.
		Jude Law stars in Enemy at the Gates as Sgt. Vassili Zaitsev, a young Russian who grew up in a shepherding family in the Ural Mountains, and who became a skilled marksman at his grandfather's knee, learning to shoot wolves that would prey on the flocks.
		Be it propaganda or major motion picture, the tale effectively reduces two impersonal armies to two recognizable archetypes — the heroic young warrior defending a battered, impoverished nation, and the aristocratic hunter, brought in to coldly dispatch his human prey.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/e/enemyatthegates.q.shtml (791 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Enemy At The Gates
		Once the initial frenzy passes, Enemy at the Gates paints the city of Stalingrad with dust and rubble, punctuated by firefights, bombings, and assorted mayhem in an unremittingly bleak landscape.
		For Enemy at the Gates, as with its Western front cousin, is a small-scale, human drama set against the larger, impersonal backdrop of World War II.
		I know it may not mean much to Paramount, but with a movie like Enemy at the Gates that is based on a true story, inclusion of some extra content that details the historical basis (and the attendant controversy) of the film would have been particularly welcome.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/enemyatgates.php (1591 words)

	Natural Born Viewers: ENEMY AT THE GATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I just fail to understand why everyone treats “Enemy at the Gates” as a far better movie than “Pearl Harbor.” They are basically the same shit: random selection of a WWII battle and the transformation of it into two hours of hollow Hollywood action-drama.
		“Enemy at the Gates” is about two snipers, Vassili (Jude Law) is a Russian, while Konig (Ed Harris) is his Nazi nemesis.
		“Enemy at the Gates,” on the other hand, feels obliged to offer us action, which is why it doesn’t work.
	www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/e/enemyatthegates/review.htm (630 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Enemy at the Gates" review (2001)
		The first half-hour of "Enemy at the Gates" is a cinematically stunning, hyper-realistic battlefield nightmare that transports the viewer right into the heart of the Nazis' yearlong siege of Stalingrad during World War II.
		"Enemy at the Gates" loses most of its emotional hook by rushing through these scenes.
		"Enemy" is put back on track by the arrival of Ed Harris, playing an exalted German major named Konig who is pulled away from his stewardship of a Nazi sniper school to travel to Stalingrad and personally assassinate Vassili.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/enemygates.html (806 words)

	!! ENEMY AT THE GATES !! The dual between KOENIG and ZAITSEV
		An epic film, Enemy at the Gates is based on the story of real-life hero Vassili Zaitsev, whose exploits at Stalingrad form one of the most famous sagas to emerge from the war.
		(90k) Jude Law as Vassili in "Enemy at the Gates." An epic film, "Enemy at the Gates" is based on the story of real-life hero Vassili Zaitsev, whose exploits at Stalingrad form one of the most famous sagas to emerge from the war.
		In Craig's book, "Enemy at the Gates," the German sniper is identified as “Major Konings...the German super-sniper from Berlin” (not Koenig/no first name), and the Soviet sniper is identified as Vassili Zaitsev.
	www.cybersniper.com /stalingrad/enemyatthegates.htm (2652 words)

	Enemy at the Gates Movie Review - MovieWeb
		Enemy at the Gates would have gained greatly from some link between the two men, something to make the viewer have to think.
		For its 2:10 running time, Enemy at the Gates sounds stuffed to the gills and looks like an epic, but it ultimately feels empty.
		If however you find yourself faced with the Enemy at the Gates DVD, you'll find a number of extras, including a handful of deleted scenes that provide a little more backstory and add to the irony of the last act.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/18/218/review1621.php (654 words)

	Enemy at the Gates movie review
		Many directors would love to have the opportunity to make a film about a war story that has been argued over for years as to whether it was historical fact or propaganda.
		With "Enemy at the Gates," director Jean-Jacques Annaud got this rare chance and, thanks to an overabundance of political correctness and the like, has managed to single-handedly take what might have otherwise been a 5-star movie and fudge it up to the point that it barely rates 3-stars.
		The story of the famous duel between Vassili Zaitsev, a real-life Russian shepherd-turned-sniper, and the possibly fictitious head of the Nazi sniper school (named Koenig or Thorwald depending on who is telling the story) during the horrific WWII battle of Stalingrad may or may not be true.
	www.moviesforguys.com /drama/reviews/enemyatthegates.shtml (765 words)

	Enemy at the Gates Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Enemy at the Gates plays like one of those absurd story pitches Tim Robbins had to endure in The Player.
		Gates shows the unique motivational tools used by Red Army officers — namely a machine gun pointed at their soldiers' backs so they wouldn't retreat — and how the Soviets valued materiel over men; during one battle, only every other soldier got a rifle.
		But the main reason to see Enemy at the Gates (at a matinee or second-run theater, mind you) is the series of sniper duels between Koenig and Zaitsev.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131330&LF=MRM&LF=MRP (1042 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: ENEMY AT THE GATES
		That's all about to change - as far as the degree of portrayal - with "Enemy at the Gates," a riveting WWII flick that features not one, but many snipers and also bucks the usual cinematic trend by focusing on the Russians, with nary an American character in sight.
		Based on novelist William Craig's book "Enemy at the Gates" and the portions of it that focused on the real-life exploits of Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev, the film is a throwback to the war movies of old when romance was often mixed with battle.
		Although there is the inevitable concluding confrontation, it's a bit of a letdown considering what preceded it and because of some questionable character behavior that belies what we had come to expect.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2001/enemy_at_the_gates.html (1140 words)

	Enemy at the Gates Movie Review on AudioRevolution.com
		With a cast this good and production values this rich, 'Enemy at the Gates' should have been much better than it is. The film is painfully compromised on several levels, including politically.
		But overall, 'Enemy at the Gates,' while professional and watchable, feels like a lost opportunity.
		Check out The Enemy at the Gates official website.
	www.avrev.com /movies/enemyatthegates (1250 words)

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