Enemy took a drubbing from the critics but I thought it was good. The main beef was that it trivialized war-torn Stalingrad, using it as background for a love story and a "mere" sniper battle, but the city seemed plenty hellish to me. The scene where Ron Perlman describes having his teeth knocked out with a hammer by his own superiors, for example, economically conveyed how deeply fucked most of the characters were. It's definitely an old fashioned movie with post-Private Ryan horror footage, but it gave me a sense of what went on in the battle, more than I had, and all the cat-and-mouse maneuvers between Ed Harris and Jude Law were convincing.
- Tom Moody 4-09-2001 2:44 am





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