this movie totally fail to engage me . the director ( jean jacques annaud ) get himself into a confused mess when try to make this good versus evil movie he comfortable depict all nazi a bad but he can not depict all soviet a good and try instead to portray a complex grey area . unfortunately and he fail . the two character who be battle it out ( jude law and ed harris ) raise no empathy with me and about halfway through the movie i realise i actually do not care which one win provide one of them do and i could leave . the movie be also full of cliche ( a love triangle and a young boy and a cold eye enemy and support character early death some of which you will be grateful for . ) and this do nothing to increase the enjoyment . men might want to see this for rachel weisz a the beautiful young soldier girl and woman will inevitably want to see jude law but find them in other film and maybe you will be treat to a plot which you can enjoy . the only good thing about the movie be bob hoskins and if that isn not a sentence to scare the living daylight out of you then you deserve this movie .