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Summary: Sad, emotional, thought provoking
Review: I have watched a lot of movies and this was one of the few that touched me. I cried for a while afterward. It was one of the only war movies that I have seen that didn't try to make perfect people and have it be totally good versus evil. There were no good people in this movie. Some of the characters became good or better as the movie progressed, but nobody was a hero. I have always known people do horrible things to each other, but this is one of the closest ways that I have seen that shows some of the true horrors of people.
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Summary: No hope
Review: This is a movie about rebirth and the value of life... several victories of life over death... the man the learns to love life again, the women that gives her life for the child of her torturers, a profound lesson on love and optimism that I had not seen for a while... A superb cast of actors, the beautifull landscape and the traditional songs that grabs you and haunts you... poetry!
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Summary: My God, what a film.
Review: NOT FOR CHILDREN!!! The R rating should be enough, but some R films are viewed by children, this one should be only for the age group of 16+. Or, at the very limits, 14+. But only for very mature young people who understand that this stuff actually happened. OVER AND OVER AGAIN!! It is all still happening now. The acting is SUPERB and the soundtrack is haunting, as the previous review claims. I leave the synopsis to that review, and leave you now. <A 14 year old American boy overseas> (Rating system is different here, didna know)
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Summary: Excellent portrayal of the Balkan conflict
Review: Dennis Quaid stars in this disturbing film about the crisis in the Balkans. After opening fire and murdering islamic worshippers in a Muslim mosque in retribution for the bomb that claimed his family's lives, he enlists in the Foreign Legion, and enventually finds his way to the war-torn region of the former Yugoslavia. There he fights for the Serbs against the Muslims and in doing so meets a pregnant Serbian woman who was raped. The story revolves around Quaid trying to help this woman and her child escape to freedom. An excellent and haunting account of the complex civil war that engulfs the region. I suspect that if Amazon.Com were to obtain the soundtrack to this movie, it would sell VERY well. It is well produced, and is haunting to hear.
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Summary: a sleeper, outstanding acting, story won't leave me alone
Review: I picked up this unknown title on a whim because I like Dennis Quaid. The acting was tremendous and the characters believable. Most of all, the scenes keep running through my mind, and like another viewer, I would like more information on that haunting and beautiful music. It is a film of the caliber of "Platoon". I recommend that viewers who liked this should see "When Trumpets Fade", outstanding for similar reasons, barring music.
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Summary: Emotionally disturbing, accurate depiction of war.
Review: I was there in Bosnia to try and help pick up the pieces afterwards for 9 months. I was stationed outside the town of Brcko, part of an Army Reserve information operations unit called up to help. We helped people get back to their homes, register to vote and taught children how to avoid the mines that were everywhere. I spoke and worked alongside Serbians, Croatians and Muslims and counted many from all sides as friends. The sadness and brutality depicted in the film my friends lived though. Thank you for telling the world the truth and that there is still some kindness and light out there.The soundtrack is outstanding and I would not hesitate to purchase a copy.
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Summary: A more realistic movie.
Review: I loved this movie. I rented it, and I plan on buying it as soon at it's released. I'm disturbed by some of the other reviews that say the movie "twisted" the truth. And the concerns that certain parties were portrayed as bad guys and other's weren't. The movie was like real life. There were no good guys or bad guys. It was all grey. In war, there are always innocents on both sides, and there is always evil on both sides. Both sides have commited atrocities in this war, and both sides have been hurt. In WWII, every single german soldier wasn't a bloodthirsty racist evil person. They were men fighting for their country. War isn't what it has been cartoonized to be. It is isn't good guys versus bad guys. It's just guys versus guys. The governments are what are good and bad. Or more acuurately, the decisions made by the governments. But people are good and bad individually. Not generally. (In other words, there are good serbs and bad serbs, good albanians and bad albanians, but not just good albanians and bad serbs, or vice versa.) Sorry for not really giving a review, but I wanted ot defend the movie some here. It's getting a lot of flak from people that think that bad guys always wear black hats and deserve to die and that good guys are always pure and innocent.
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Summary: Haunting Music...Disturbing Movie...War truly IS ugly
Review: I would REALLY like to have the soundtrack to this movie....how about it Amazon? Dennis Quaid is to be admired for his willingness to take on "difficult" and perhaps not "popular roles".
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Summary: Impartial and Unbalanced:
Review: Not quite an adequate depiction of the war. The part with the little girl throwing the grenade and all seems a bit out of line. The acting and storyline are still compelling.
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Summary: A tragic and disturbing record of human misery
Review: This is a film which is really difficult to return to even though it ranks as one of best I have seen this year. It registers in your very soul such is the despair it evokes. The gradual transformation and ultimate redemption of Denis Quaid is mesmerising. the emotional impact of this film is further heightened by the continuing combination of human hopelessness and stunning natural beauty. Just when you have given up any hope for anyone in this battlefield the human spirit finally prevails. You cannot watch this film and not be moved. Unmissable.
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