This is probably the worst movie about the decisive and bloodiest battle during the course of the second world war - the battle which actually allowed the Russians (in 1943 Allied forces were nowhere to be seen yet) to stop and reverse the German offensive.
Is this a movie really about that deafening battle? No, absolutely not, it's a about a group of Russian soldiers who fought for some house in the center of Stalingrad, but they were not fighting for their motherland or peace, but for a single surviving woman who inhabited that house (other inhabitants of the city lived in basements as the city was was under constant bombing and it was crammed with snipers).
The movie is rife with meaningless stupid dialogs, similarly meaningless voice over (which revealed that the budget was ... scarce), actions which defied common sense and any logic, especially the laws of war.
For reasons which are beyond any logic, the movie tries hard to vindicate the Germans, to show them as people who are similar to the Russians, even though the former started the bloodiest war in the history of mankind, and the latter were its victims. Who cares that the Germans employed genocide and ethnic purges? This movie is above that.
In short almost everything that is shown about the war is either absurd, grotesque, factually wrong or egregious.
The CGI in the movie is excellent, and that's its only redeeming quality. The script is awful, the acting is pretentious, and the portrayal of the war is beyond anything you've ever known.
Is this a movie really about that deafening battle? No, absolutely not, it's a about a group of Russian soldiers who fought for some house in the center of Stalingrad, but they were not fighting for their motherland or peace, but for a single surviving woman who inhabited that house (other inhabitants of the city lived in basements as the city was was under constant bombing and it was crammed with snipers).
The movie is rife with meaningless stupid dialogs, similarly meaningless voice over (which revealed that the budget was ... scarce), actions which defied common sense and any logic, especially the laws of war.
For reasons which are beyond any logic, the movie tries hard to vindicate the Germans, to show them as people who are similar to the Russians, even though the former started the bloodiest war in the history of mankind, and the latter were its victims. Who cares that the Germans employed genocide and ethnic purges? This movie is above that.
In short almost everything that is shown about the war is either absurd, grotesque, factually wrong or egregious.
The CGI in the movie is excellent, and that's its only redeeming quality. The script is awful, the acting is pretentious, and the portrayal of the war is beyond anything you've ever known.