AniInterview
Sorry, this movie sucks
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Siflutter
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "Stalingrad" (1993)Shot on exterior locations in Finland and Czech Republic in 1992 to find completion at Bavaria Filmstudios Munich for heart-striking release in January 1993 preliminary in a German theater exhibitions, "Stalingrad" directed by Jospeh Vilsmaier, at age 53, delivers with "Das Boot" (1981-1985) mimicking "World-War-2" character portrayals, led by committed German soldiers-playing actors Dominique Horwitz and Thomas Kretschmann as Fritz & Hans in constant war-action-pounding charges to an inevitable historic Farsided Eastern front of Nationalsocial-invasion into Russian territory, when in late 1943 the expanding German military turns to the worse in horrific losses, presented in highly-authentic image system out of machine gun shoot-outs, burning factory buildings, recalling the superior shot Vietnam-war-action film "Full Metal Jacket" directed by Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999); further highlighting moments of an allied tank platoon pushing to opposite-sided borders in thick snow-hazard visuals under hammer-falling sound design, when producer Hanno Huth, who also executive-produced director Peter Jackson's breakthrough into classic drama in season 1993/1994 with "Heavenly Creatures" starring Kate Winslet; the producer, who then ensures a fully-independent budget in inflation-adjusted region from ten to fifteen Million euros in today's world of 2018, when director Joseph Vilsmaier keeps the camera moving, characters clashing, a war machine turning, but leaves the devastation of a mindless-storming attempt to a treaty-defying offense in "World-War-II" transforming to hopelessly-cruel measures with no emotional relief of any kind.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend
(Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
Chunyi Hsu
It is film where the greater political propaganda is put aside and humanity, or the destruction thereof, is put on centre stage. It is realist in that there is nothing heroic about any characters, and certainly no intention to impress anyone with action scenes. There is only depiction of the dire daily reality for those on the front line fighting- in between buildings to buildings, underground sewage system, and bunkers, the propagated cause for fatherland is replaced with confusion, disillusion, famine, death, and desperation. Soon it becomes clear that the real enemy is not those who on the other side of the front line, but the few elites that feed on the massive sacrifices of their own people. This message is delivered without making the film a strong political critique. This film provides a perspective from the defeating side, where, for those who were trapped and abandoned thousands kilometers away from home, fate was collectively decided on the day they received order to march to Stalingrad. I recommend it to people who want to have a real taste of war and are open to a different point of view.
Nick Fletcher
Stalingrad is not the best war film. At times, I found the sub-par acting by extras and use of stock sound effects really killed the depth of a scene. I also found that I couldn't keep a track of which characters were which, this may have been due to similar faces and language barriers creating trouble with indistinguishable accents. Between scenes, there would be such large gaps in time that you wouldn't be able to tell how a situation arose or what the situation was in some cases, making the story hard to follow. These factors limited my ability to feel the exhaustion and suffering of the characters, and left me slightly disengaged.The reason for my high mark, however, is attributed to the final scenes. The raw emotion coming from the few remaining actors is highly visible on this precious smaller scope, and the eventual plight of each character is played out in such devastating detail that I sat in silence in a dark room long after the credits had finished rolling and felt compelled after to even write some poetry.If you came to this film to see the struggle of a battle, you could do better, but stick around for the ending, it's very much worth it.
Uriah43
A battalion of German soldiers from the Afrika Corps are spending some time at an Italian port during the summer of 1942. At that particular time their spirits were high as the German army was in the process of advancing victoriously into Russia. But all that was subject to change as their next assignment would be: Stalingrad. And they had no idea what was in store for them. At any rate, told from the German perspective, this film does a remarkable job of showing the hardships and tragedy these soldiers had to endure. Despite proving themselves in battle, their courage and discipline was being tested as much by the Russian winter as it was their Russian foes. And yet they continued on all the same. Now, while everybody knows how this battle eventually played out, this movie allows the viewer to gain a unique understanding of how it may have appeared through the eyes of the German soldier. Definitely worth a watch for those who can appreciate a film of this type.
