Perfect cast and a good story

Boring

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I have not yet seen the film, but as a World War 2 historian just the previews hit pretty hard ... the scene dramatizing the historical photos of people pulling sleighs with little bodies on them, for example ... and I shall try to find a copy around Oslo to watch, to complete this.The reviewer who expressed doubt the Russians would mount an unsupported infantry attack across open ground is wrong. In the first years of the war, many Russian lives were wasted in such desperate attacks, often forced at gunpoint by NKVD political commissars.Defense Minister Voroshilov - one of only two of five prewar Red Army marshals to survive the NKVD purges of the Red Army ordered by Stalin - had been sent to Leningrad to personally defend it, and he personally led one of these desperate counterattacks.I will be interested to see if there are any sequences of K(limenti)V(oroshilov) tanks rolling out of the Kirov tank works and directly into battle? On my CoatneyHistory webpage, I have a free little boardgame titled Leningrad 1941: the Embattled City, about the early Wehrmacht onslaught (until the Germans shifted panzer and infantry forces to the attack on Moscow), with a dedication to its people.The theme of my webpages is "The more we learn about the Second World War, the better our chances it will be the LAST world war." We NEVER want another one, and this film looks like it inescapably shows how the innocent - especially children - suffer most.By the way, the pretty Russian actress who played Natalia in Sergey Bondarshuk's epic 1966 War and Peace film, Lyudmila Saveleva, was born in Leningrad on 24 January 1942, during the worst of the siege and starvation.Lou Coatney

If you've read 900 days you'll be treated to a very real view of what happened from 1941 to 1944 in Leningrad. I recommend reading the book first. Effects in this movie are intense. I'm surprised this movie didn't win many awards. Von Leeb and the mighty German army couldn't take Leningrad cause it was defended by 1.5 million starving Russians protecting family's and homes. This movie takes you into the lives of not just Kate the journalist, but several other characters who struggle to survive the day to day life of the siege. This is one of the best historical films ever made. Ranks with some of the best like "Longest day", "Bridge too far", Bridge over river Kai", to name a few. Enjoy

With a larger budget 'Leningrad' would have been great.All ingredients are there. Above all, one of the most horrible scenes in history of mankind: the Nazi-siege + deliberate starvation of Leningrad, nowadays St. Petersburg. Russia's second city, renowned for its magnificent architecture. This siege from 1941-'44 caused a few million casualties, and an unending amount of human suffering.'Leningrad' deserves praise for its research: the wartime Soviet-society from Stalin's days is well reflected. The film also is adequately in touch with the harshness of the North Russian winter. And the almost unparallelled tragedy of this siege comes out beyond doubt.After this we arrive at 'Leningrad's weak points: its acting is barely adequate, and its shooting no more than mediocre. A severe tragedy like this surely deserves a lot more dignity and respect than shown here.

This movie has wasted it's title "Leningrad".Very disappointing movie, can't compare to German movie Stalingrad (1993) I had high hope for this movie. After I've watched Stalingrad (1993), I think it would be very interesting to check out the similar warfare from Russians' perspective, but I was utterly disappointed, so bad that I have to fast-forward some scenes to get by (almost quite in the middle of it).First all, if you want to see the fierce battle scene, then you can avoid this movie altogether, because it only lasts 5 minutes in the beginning. When the bomb does fall, some scene just so lack of common sense it is ridiculous - at the scene when the British journalist encounters an air raid, the bomb just falling off around her, I highly doubt that's what German pilots would do, waste tons of bomb on one person one truck.Second, I am all support to view the war from a different angle - city dwellers instead of soldiers at the killing field. But this movie's plot line is illogical, loss, jumping all over the places, from a conscience-stricken German pilot to the persecution of any reminder White Army relatives, from the special treatment to foreign journalists and Russian's own elite societies to the bonding of the two female characters... It's severely weakened the grim, bleak, desperate and crude suffering atmosphere when a city was under siege for 882 days with 1.5 million people perished.Third, when the plot line is scattered, script is weak, the one last thing can save the movie from a total disaster is the acting, however, it fails miserably here too! I like actor Gabriel Byrne a lot, but see him in this movie make me wondering what he was thinking? The Russian woman solider is way over the top annoying, she seems can be anywhere, do anything with full energy while others were at the verge of starving to death hanging on their finger nails. The English journalist is even more plain and phony. None the characters is likable, well acted, be able to command the screen and memorable.I like this movie just for the cinematographic which convincingly presents the destructed city and it's suffering people.And finally, I do have my utter respect to Russian people who has survived the siege, who fought and won the impossible fight and set off the turning point of WWII.