Perfect cast and a good story

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Blistering performances.

Director Fedor Bondarchuk already won me over with films like '9th Company' and 'Attraction' (his latest film), which are both among my favorites. I finally got my hands on 'Stalingrad' and watched it in great anticipation, and wasn't let down one bit! 'Stalingrad' is among my favorite war films. It was also one of the more touching war films, and not detailed gore like some war movies. I really enjoyed the back ground stories of each of the main characters. All of them had a very definite reason for being there and being who they are. The film features some of the best visuals I've ever seen with great sound. The music was awesome, as well. The battle scenes were incredibly well done.

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.

I have live during a war and see how a real one is. This movie is one of the best about WW2 I have ever seen, from the point of real life view of how soldiers and people -citizens- react under those circumstances. Also may not represent the real Stalingrad battle but that's not my point here.It is slow and bit boring sometimes and yes most viewers will like more action and explosions and gore. Forget all about those brave super heroes you see from Hollywood movies. It is not like this not at all. An example that's a standard cliché in all movies now, the sergeant opens the vehicle door and shouts "go go go go soldiers get them, lets show those !!!! what we really are" etc etc. That's a bad joke. It is not like that in the line of fire and when soldiers run out from the transportation vehicle and the first bomb drops nearby even 300 meter away its nothing like what we see in movies not even at 10 % close.

When you expect one battle movie, you expect the typical vision of the war. This is a nice movie because you can see the another war, the really war in the east. It was a hard battle and the movie is that. The argument is not very good, the story of exaggerated love, far from the reality is annoying.But the effects are very pleasing to the eye, the music does its job, and the actors are commensurate with the expected. It's a movie for a Saturday, action and heroism from the Soviet vision (actually a Russian view) Sometimes you lose your initial script (which does not matter) and gets into the love story something I dislike me.If you search one Historical film with the soviet vision this is not your movie, this is an action movie