Stalingrad the Movie: A Review

Explosions, fire, airplanes on fire with explosions, World War II army uniforms, and a calm, collective pianist.  Its like a Call of Duty commercial.  IN 3D!

Just like the first post on this blog was on Stalingrad, so to is its first movie review.  Stalingrad (2013) is a Russian production that just oozes with over-the-top action with a great story, and the nostalgia of Russian history.  A fictional tale of the battle of Stalingrad (hint: check back on the first post, )  this movie loosely bases itself on the story of Pavlov's House.  

A small group of Russian defenders are ordered to hold off a lone city apartment building to make way for the successful Russian retaliation against the Nazi-German army who has managed to engulf the city with heavy air-support and vicious tank armour.  This is the backdrop for a, you guessed it, all-demographic-encompassing, love story.  War, love, its like peanut butter and jelly folks!  

Still shooting while on fire:  The Phoenix Force is strong in this one

The over-dramatic action scenes play a huge role in the epic-ness of this movie but this reviewer is not complaining.  The Battle of Stalingrad, was...well, a battle.  A very insanely bloody one at that, with almost 2 million people killed and an entire city turned into a smoldering, demolition site.  However this battle would also spark a turn for the better for Russia, snow-balling into the eventual march of the Red Army into Hitler's HQ, Berlin.  

It is definitely worth seeing.  Sit back and enjoy!