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Title: Starts great, goes wrong
Review: I suppose I'm churlish for not liking this movie. Not having seen ads or reviews and not having read the book, I was misled by the opening sequences into thinking that this was a movie about the battle of Stalingrad. The opening sequences are very effective and impressively nightmarish in showing that "war is hell," a message one can't hear too often.Then it all goes dreadfully wrong, as the viewer is expected to be interested in a farfetched cat-and-mouse game between two snipers. This is such small potatoes compared to the start of the movie that I turned it off in disgust. As with virtually all "hit man" movies, I quickly lose interest in "who kills who?" as the body count increases. But I guess if you liked Pulp Fiction, you may like this.
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