Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Americans make their war movies with the biggest budgets, toughest stars, but stereotypical predictable scripts. The British like complex, intellectual war movies done for cheap. Russia makes some of the best war movies around, though good luck getting to see any on this side of the former Iron Curtain. And Germany? Somehow the Germans combine the best of all the war movie making lands, with one caveat: you know your side is going to lose. Stalingrad follows a young Lieutenant who joins his new infantry unit at the height of Germany's World War II victories. As they drive deeper into the Soviet heartland with each fresh victory, our Lieutenant becomes more disillusioned with the war until his Army becomes hopelessly trapped by the Red Army's surprise Operation Uranus surrounding Stalingrad. Like American movies, you have action packed battles with quite realistic details. Like the British, you have a philosophical and intellectual discussion of what war in general, and this in particular mean. Like the Russians, you have a visceral gut grinding point of view of war on a very personal level. But because it's a German film, you know your side is going to .... lose.