Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Pete Postlethwaite, Daragh O’Malley
Rated M
Score 5/6

Spain 1812. After Ciudad Rodrigo, Teresa tells Sharpe that they have a baby daughter. In Badajoz, the next siege target. Meanwhile, a new commander has taken over the South Essex, along with the murderous Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill, an old enemy of Sharpe’s from India days. But a new commander means a captain trying to turn the Rifles into red-jackets, and Sharpe’s only hope to command his company again is the Forlorn one

Sharpe’s Company is the one where the series starts to find its groove this is because of the genius casting of Pete Postlethwaite as Hakeswill, who isn’t the biggest villain of the franchise but certainly is the slimiest and the most hated. We also start to see the relationship between Harper and Sharpe develop and get a better idea of the kind of man that Sharpe is. Ambitious but not the type of man to forget where he comes from.

Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Pete Postlethwaite, Daragh O’Malley
Rated M
Score 6/6

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe’s old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Ducos.

Sharpe’s Enemy is one of the more memorable movies in the series because it’s one of the sadder movies (I won’t be giving spoilers so don’t worry if you plan on watching these at some point). This is an example of Elizabeth Hurley’s early work it should be noted that by the time she was cast in in Enemy she had more then a few movie titles to her filmography at the age of 29. As the movies have progresses in the series the visual style really does not change that much, and it looks as if hardly anything at all was shot in a studio. The thing to be excited about Enemy is the first appearance of Sharpe’s nemesis Major Ducos portrayed by Féodor Atkine. I’m not entirely sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing especially when you take into consideration Sharpe’s intelligence and sense of duty that everything that eventually goes down between the two of them is because some fairly petty stuff.