Drama > Harris, Ed Drama

Starts off great but begins to fades away

Advantages: Some excellent action scenes, solid performances, stunning visuals
Disadvantages: narrative starts to drop off after a while

Released in 2001, Enemy at the Gates is a war film set during the battle of Stalingrad and starring Jude Law as russian peasant-turned-sniper Vassili Zaitsev and Ed Harris as Major Erwin Konig, an elite German sniper who gets the job of tracking down and taking out Vassili after the russian attracts the attention of his superiors on account of his hunting-honed sniping skills and is moulded into an important Soviet propaganda weapon. The film's opening ...
...Nazi lines that echoes Saving Private Ryan in its stark and uncompromising brutality. Troops are handed one rifle between three and instructed to pick the weapons up when their wielder is killed; German Stukkas strafe overcrowded Soviet troop boats with machineguns whilst Sargeants pump revolver rounds into anyone that tries to escape by jumping over the side; conscripts are mown down from the front by concentrated german fire whilst NKVD machinegunners ...

Burning_Darkness 02.11.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Enemy At The Gates (DVD)

Places In The Heart

Advantages: Solid performances, excellent screenplay.
Disadvantages: None.

I watched this movie because from the short synopsis on Sky's information page it sounded as though it would be a good one. Plus Sally Field is one of my favourite actresses. My expectations were met. Not once throughout the course of the film did I find myself glancing at the clock in boredom. It's a remarkable story from start to finish, although I must admit - the end scene somewhat confuses me. The movie, in short: A woman (Sally Field) is ...
...she can pay off the debts her husband left. The movie is set in Texas in 1935, and the woman takes the advice of a Negro traveller (played by Danny Glover) and sows acres of cotton. She also takes in a blind man (John Malkovich) as a border to make a few extra dollars. The events which follow are extremely well written, and excellently played by the chosen cast. Sally Field is the perfect choice for the role that she plays, as are Danny Glover and ...

Shallois 03.09.2001 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Places In The Heart (DVD)

Understanding A Beautiful Mind.

Advantages: An excellent award winning drama, based on a true story.
Disadvantages: None!

My Reason For Purchasing A Beautiful Mind DVD. I wrote this review a year or so ago for another review site which has since closed. I thought I would upload it here as A Beautiful Mind is one of my favourite Drama films ever and I just wanted to recommend it and give some opinions on it. There is quite a few reviews already about it, but I just wanted to give my two cents worth also. A Beautiful mind is one of my favourite Russell Crowe Movies. ...
...I watched this film a few years ago at the Movie house and I enjoyed it so much, that I bought it on DVD when it first was released. I have watched it several times over the years and each time I do, I love it more and always seem to pick up on something I missed in the film the previous time I watched it. This really is an excellent film that really will keep you glued to your seat in my opinion. Well this Movie was first released on December 21, ...

hillhead 06.10.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional
Review of A Beautiful Mind (DVD)

The hours- You don't want to miss this beautifully told film

Advantages: Story and strong performances.
Disadvantages: Slow.

...was regarded as one of the best films of 2002. This film has three stories, spanning over a few decades, dealing with the lives of three women. A woman(Meryl Streep) planning to throw a party for his writer friend who suffers from AIDS in 2001, a pregnant wife awaiting her husband's birthday party in the 1950's and an author named Virginia Woolf writing her novel "the hours" in the 1930's. Its the novel that binds them together, and also their state ...
...From the first scene itself, the film binds you with its story-telling.There's something really honest, really sincere about this film. Emotions are mostly kept inside, it is more thoughtful, rather than verbal. It is essentially about what all three women are going through in their lives, battling depression and confusion in life in their own ways. All three stories are fabulous and there's hardly a weak link in the movie. This is not a movie on ...

aadnan613 08.07.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of The Hours (DVD)

Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink....

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...giving us Terminator (aliens from the future) and Aliens (aliens in space), in 1989 James Cameron decided to takes his theme to a new location and the setting for Abyss is entirely underwater. Its not a new idea, but out of all the attempts at this type of horror/sci-fi, this is undoubtedly the best. This time however the film is set in the totally recognisable world of the present day and comes complete with a moral message regarding humanity. ...
...of experts and oddballs under the leadership of Virgil "Bud" Brigman played by the excellent Ed Harris. News reaches them that a US submarine has been lost on the edge of an abyss and with a violent storm moving in they are the only place a successful rescue attempt can be launched from. After being joined by a team of navy SEALs and the rigs designer, who happens to be the estranged Mrs Brigman, the storm closes in cutting all contact with the surface. ...

steerpyke 07.01.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of The Abyss (DVD)