Word: sharpshooting
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...Gates is essentially a spy-versus-spy battle between two snipers. It is only after the first couple of cinematographically beautiful and appropriately gory war is really really bad scenes that we meet our hero. Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law) is a peasant who has been taught to sharpshoot by his grandfather. Distractingly, he and many of the other Russian characters in this film all sport British accents. But beyond that, Law, with his infamously blue eyes and pretty face, is much more fit to play British royalty than a dingy Russian peasant who can barely write. We must forgive...
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