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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I love this movie, even though it's not in English. I've seen many great movies, where I've had to read subtitles.It is based on a true story, about a courageous woman. You need to watch it for yourself.I don't want to spoil it for you.

I would like to share with you my thoughts. First of all I loved the film. You get real war movie. The visuals was not really trouble. Although less spectacular element in it. Instead of a serious war drama I could compare the film. What WWII was transposed to the environment. The characters were well developed and realistic. Real emotion could be seen on their faces. What I liked even more the use of the camera. Very simple scenes have been able to make it interesting. It maintains the interest in the story. I would not compare this film to the film Enemy at the Gates. Those who look to a slower but more emotional love war drama to expect.

It is ridiculously unrealistic. Life in Stalin's USSR depicted like a paradise with happy people and abundance of food (we are talking about 1 year after the end of the Great Terror), snipers that take out tanks and so on, German soldiers that attack in open field at walking pace and using no cover, and yet they make short work of a Russian defensive trench, and many more. Rudimentary dialogue, giving characters no psychological depth ("If you do not want to fight for your country, you are a coward"). Fragmented story. Millions of Soviet soldiers deserve a better depiction of the suffering and hardships they hand to endure in those years in order to bring victory to their country.

The Battle of Sevastopol lasted from October 30 1941 until July 4th 1942 and became a huge and tactical victory for the Axis under The German Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein. Why on earth the Russians would actually make a movie about such a big defeat in WW2 may at first be a mystery.However, after seeing this movie it is clear the movie does not in any way focus on the outcome of the battle of Sevastopol and not even the outcome of World War 2. Also, though packed with action, the movie does not constantly resort to horribly fantasized Russian 'superheroes' nor a constant flood of cgi monstrosities like the earlier 2013 Russian movie 'Stalingrad'. However a lot, and I mean a LOT, has been fantasized to thicken the storyline.The movie focuses on the (in)famous female Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. As a movie it is a pretty simple tale being told how Pavlichenko discovered her talent with a gun, got dragged into the war and why she made the trip the United States in 1942. However also omnipresent is her affection to several men throughout the movie. This flow of love stories almost constantly distracts from the horrors of war and the actual historical tale being told. Because of this, the meandering movie even gets quite tedious halfway through and the viewer is glad when hell breaks loose in a scene. That can't be the message the makers want to send out I reckon.As a movie coming from one of the participants in WW2 and certainly not one with a clean sheet when it comes to war crimes, it is rather painful to see how the movie does not want to touch that aspect of the horrors on the Eastern Front nor does it reflect on how the Holodomor divided the Ukrainians when it came to choosing either the German or Soviet side.Leaving aside any emotions, as being an action packed movie about a sniper, the tension of the movie falls short compared to, for instance, 'Enemy At The Gates'. Also the made-up German sniper (Google his name and you will only find reviews of this movie) in 'Bitva za Sevastopol' is more than a big wink at 'Enemy At The Gates' but in this movie the duel turns out only being a short scene without any further use for the storyline.For a Russian movie in general about world War 2 it is in a way a great improvement after the 2013 Stalingrad debacle but still a far cry from earlier Russian masterpieces such as 'Idi i Smotri' (1985). 'Bitva za Sevastopol' is Okay-ish, but nothing more.