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Stalingrad

Stalingrad (2014)

February. 28,2014
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5.7
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R
| Drama Action War

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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Kattiera Nana
2014/02/28

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Exoticalot
2014/03/01

People are voting emotionally.

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FirstWitch
2014/03/02

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Matho
2014/03/03

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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anselmdaniel
2014/03/04

This review contains spoilers.Stalingrad is a war movie set in the second Wold War in the Battle of Stalingrad. The movie follows both the Soviet and German army's perspectives as the battle unfolds. Most of the story follows the perspectives of Soviet soldiers that find shelter in an apartment building.This movie is a mess. Many story arcs are jumbled that causes the audience to be unable to follow a character well. The story tried to do too much and it only causes the audience to be confused. The Soviet soldiers in the apartment are fine as characters on their own, but the movie follows each of them causing a jumbling mess. This is further exacerbated by the movie spending time with the German officer and his Russian collaborator. Many of these characters die with their arcs unfulfilled which adds to the pointlessness of following the characters.Besides the story, the action is decent but not impressive. The action could have been better directed, with some of the computer effects being bland. The sound design is great and I did not hear any blaring problems. Some of the action scenes are worth watching. Overall, I would not recommend Stalingrad. It is a movie with many problems in its plot. Some of the action scenes are worth watching even if it leans heavily on propaganda.

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Alex Rosenkrantz
2014/03/05

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.

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Milos Latinovic
2014/03/06

Two movies with the same title, the German made Stalingrad (1993) and 20 years younger Russian Stalingrad (2013) had some similarities but also important differences in their depicting of historically important battle from 1942/43.Both movies have thematic content that resembles each other. Besides shoeing us the same event, the same place and the same time, Stalingrads have a few important motives in common. Namely, spectators ate witnesses of a tragic situation of women who are forced to become mistresses of the conquerors and now fall in risk to be shot by their "liberators". In some way similar situation are German - Russian couples which are in danger from both sides.Stalingrad (2013), as expected, will attract public with spectacular, state of the art, scenes which were not available at the time Stalingrad (1993) was made. Another advantage of the newer film is start of the story in Stalingrad during the battle. Characters of the former are hard to track since they completely change their appearance during the battle. On the other hand, German version is way better in depicting horrors of war, everyday sufferings from fear, exhaustion, hunger, illness, cold, friendly fire and wounds. In this aspect Stalingrad (2013) is little more than a fairy tale in which heroic Russian soldiers beat evil Germans despite all the odds and only one person suffering from lice is no one else but a German general.So if you are making video clips about war be sure to check S(2013). But if you had a grandfather who fought in this battle S(1993) will be more informative. For other purposes we will have to wait for another 10 or 20 years.

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Dan1863Sickles
2014/03/07

I don't often review a film in a defensive manner, but in this case I was truly shocked by how negative the reviews have been.STALINGRAD is not an epic history of the battle itself. The actual battle took over six months and involved over a million men. Did anyone really expect to see every single soldier engaged rush past the camera? STALINGRAD is not Russian, let alone Communist propaganda. It's a story of human survival and human values such as loyalty, compassion and love. If anything, the movie is overly cautious in that not one Red Army soldier ever refers to commissars, or the Party Line, let alone the danger of being liquidated by the NKVD. But that's part of the point. There are no idealists and no dissidents either. Only men and women fighting to stay alive.The fight for a single house symbolizes the epic battle of Stalingrad. There is no reason to reject this strategy. Anyone who's watched the movie GETTYSBURG (surely the American equivalent of Stalingrad on many levels) will notice that at least half the film's running time is devoted to the valor of a single Union Army Regiment (the 20th Maine) defending a single small hill (Little Round Top.) This movie presents a similar struggle, except a single house is the Red Army's Little Round Top. And the brave, tender, loving woman who lives there is the flesh and blood symbol of all they hope to preserve.STALINGRAD is not only a great war movie, with explosive combat scenes and hand to hand combat, but a very intimate movie too. The fact that a narrator is used to provide back story for the five Red Army soldiers (and their adored Katya) in no way lessens the dramatic impact of their sacrifice. This is a unique look at war because here there is no separation from the Home Front and the Front Lines. The idolized "girl next door" in most war movies is literally next door, and her survival is more vital to these fighting men than their own.Does STALINGRAD have flaws? Perhaps a few minor ones. Thomas Kretschmann is an extraordinary actor, but his character, Captain Kahn, is the "doomed yet defiantly chivalrous German officer" we've all admired ever since Marlon Brando in THE YOUNG LIONS. His love affair with the submissive, lush-lipped traitor Masha is scorching hot at first, particularly one indelible image when he returns to her after a firefight and literally tears the clothes from her all-too-willing body. Yet by the end his heroics have become unintentionally funny, as he commandeers a go-cart and zooms through the crowds like Bart Simpson on a rampage, seeking his golden-haired Slavic siren. When the stern Colonel reprimands him, you almost expect Kahn to chirp, "Don't have a cow, man!" But again, the point here is not to glorify war, or even Russian fortitude. It's to glorify the common humanity of Germans and Russians alike. STALINGRAD is a fine film and time will confirm my judgment!

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