And that's fine. So settle in for a tale of the sorrow of war based on a small section of the most brutal battle in the history of mankind, Stalingrad. Only it's not that either.
It's the story of five Soviet soldiers with pure souls and ample justification (which the voice overs point out regularly). Fighting off the invading Nazis I guess. If you cut out say 5 specific scenes in this movie, you wouldn't even know they were there. I've seen a couple reviews that say the film does too much to humanize the Nazi beasts. I personally didn't really see that. There's only two of them, the junior officer who's there I guess and the senior officer who is the cold blooded super villain. If I had to use one word to describe the portrayal of the Germans in this movie, it would be incompetent.
In their defense the Russians do fight like captain America, or Captain Soviet Union as the case may be. What with their spin kicks and ability to render rifles un-fireable and rooms defended by two people impenetrable.
The characters are one dimensional and interchangeable. The story is pointless and un-fulfilling. The set is pretty nice I guess. Two of the war scenes, otherwise known as THE two war scenes are also pretty good. Worth thirty bucks in 3D for two people ? Not even close.
It's the story of five Soviet soldiers with pure souls and ample justification (which the voice overs point out regularly). Fighting off the invading Nazis I guess. If you cut out say 5 specific scenes in this movie, you wouldn't even know they were there. I've seen a couple reviews that say the film does too much to humanize the Nazi beasts. I personally didn't really see that. There's only two of them, the junior officer who's there I guess and the senior officer who is the cold blooded super villain. If I had to use one word to describe the portrayal of the Germans in this movie, it would be incompetent.
In their defense the Russians do fight like captain America, or Captain Soviet Union as the case may be. What with their spin kicks and ability to render rifles un-fireable and rooms defended by two people impenetrable.
The characters are one dimensional and interchangeable. The story is pointless and un-fulfilling. The set is pretty nice I guess. Two of the war scenes, otherwise known as THE two war scenes are also pretty good. Worth thirty bucks in 3D for two people ? Not even close.