New York Magazine's Peter Ranier was less kind, declaring "It's as if an obsessed movie nut had decided to collect every bad war-movie convention on one computer and program it to spit out a script." The German-Russian writer Wladimir Kaminer played an extra as a Soviet soldier in the film. The additional plot stuff and the romance are kind of a shame".
When Annaud focuses on that, the movie works with rare concentration. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that it "is about two men placed in a situation where they have to try to use their intelligence and skills to kill each other. In the United States, the film received mixed reviews the most common complaint among even the positive reviews was over the inclusion of what was seen as an unnecessary love-story that detracted from the main plot. Annaud stated afterwards that he would not present another film at Berlinale, calling it a "slaughterhouse" and claiming that his movie received much better reception elsewhere. At the Berlinale film festival, it was partially booed. Critics claimed that it simplified history and glorified war. Some Red Army Stalingrad veterans were so offended by inaccuracies in the film and how the Red Army was portrayed that on May 7, 2001, shortly after the film premiered in Russia, they expressed their displeasure in the Duma, demanding a ban of the film. Reception The film was poorly received in the former Soviet Union. But the chief's dogged persistence ultimately paid off and - in the sort of twist that a professional writer of thrillers might dismiss as inconceivable - the two men arrested for the carnage turned out to be the archetypal "least likely suspects." Indeed, quite a few newspapers outside the area targeted by snipers came right out and called for Moose's resignation. Unable to give anything but small pieces of information at various press conferences held during the 23 dark days, Moose finds himself vilified and derided in many corners as ineffectual and incompetent. Dutton), the chief of the Montgomery County Police Department in Montgomery County, Maryland, who is one of those heading the efforts to track down the snipers. The protagonist is Charles Moose (played by Charles S. Plot The movie chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad (played by Bobby Hosea) and Lee Boyd Malvo (played by Trent Cameron) went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, all parts of the Washington Metropolitan Area, the entire area of which was held in a grip of terror. Character Repeating Someone Else's Dialogue (3)
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