XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
Contentar
Best movie of this year hands down!
Hadrina
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Kayden
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
opengates
Not the best film adaptation of this story. The authors should have taken the script more seriously. The actors starred the film, but they could not fix it. There is no other adaptation. This story is so important that it is worth seeing, despite the shortcomings. Although the story of a woman, she charged more for men than for women. The authors clearly did not disclose all the female feelings.
memsofit
For someone who was born 14 years after the WW2 ended and who grew up in USSR watching hundreds of similar war flicks, this one just doesn't cut it. It isn't a movie even, it's a primitive cartoon, full of stick figure characters, and how can anyone sympathize with walking stick figures is beyond me. There are no people in this movie, not one, not even the lady Eleanor - played by the sole American on the cast. And certainly not the protagonist Lyuda, although I can see that she tried. I just can't imagine why would anyone make a movie like that in 2015. To me, it clearly belongs in the late 1950 - early 1960s era, back when better directors made better movies than this one - every year by a dozen.
mosthebatman
Of course it's not exactly as it happened. The woman was married with a son before join the Army. I discovered it on Google(I hope you won't consider this information as a spoiler). That doesn't changes the fact that it's a good war movie based on true events. To tell the truth it was the first time i heard that Russians had women snipers. About the technical details now: I liked the black and white photograph, the places, the whole story generally. I admit that it could be better. I can't say it's the best war movie ever for World War II, but it's good enough to watch it without to get bored from a different side than American heroic movies(you all know what i mean...). If you are expecting John Rambo, search for something else. This movie is not for you :P Enjoy.
zavadsky
I think that it is quite a decent war movie, at par or better than "Enemy at the gates". There is very good performance for the main character. Cliché of Soviet communist organizer in US; but movie shall have a non good communist character, as real life had at the time. Very chilling and excellent scene of 10 year old girl reciting "Kill German" poem, and in all likelihood the girl was killed herself few months down the road. I waiting for English version to show to my friends, but translation going to be very difficult and will result in lower quality - a lot of important subtle messages in the movie is use of Russian, Ukranian dialect of Russian, and Ukranian languages, as well as some subtle elements to Russian-Jewish culture.
