Shot Through the Heart [IMPORT]

Rating:
Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: This is one of those films that people mistakenly assume to be only action and no more. Do yourself a favor and rent or buy this film before making that judgment. Yes, it's about a two childhood friends who got caught up in the war and one becomes a sniper. But it is more than that. The acting is very good. Linus Roche gave the kind of good acting that he usually does. Vincent Perez was also good in this film.

Rating:
Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: This is one of those films that people mistakenly assume to be only action and no more. Do yourself a favor and rent or buy this film before making that judgment. Yes, it's about a two childhood friends who got caught up in the war and one becomes a sniper. But it is more than that. The acting is very good. Linus Roche gave the kind of good acting that he usually does. Vincent Perez was also good in this film.

Rating:
Summary: Best Movie Around to Understand Kosovo & Yugoslavia War
Review: This movie grabs you and throws you to the ground. The true story of two members of Yugoslavia's Olympic riflery team, both accomplished marksmen, who are the best of friends until the war in Bosnia turns them into enemy snipers. Despite their lifelong friendship the two young men are still Serbian Orthodox and Bosnian Muslim, and the war in Sarajevo forces them to take opposite sides ... to the final showdown when one must fall.

We loved this movie. The actors and their performances are superb, the gripping drama of betrayal and survival takes the viewer for a ride full of unexpected twists and turns from compassion to cruelty amongst friends, family and community in Sarajevo during the Bosnian conflict.

The invasion and ethnic cleansing of Kosovo is pre-shadowed in this story of Serbs and Muslims living together in peace then crushed with violence into war. This movie puts a human face and voice to the inner ethnic conflicts in the Balkans. The real tragedy of Yugoslavia today finds expression in Shot Through the Heart.

Definitely one of the Best Foreign movies to make a statement about the human condition at war in Europe at the close of the 20th century. That this is a true story makes it all the more significant and relevant to the conflict in Kosovo, ethnic cleansing/genocide, and war between NATO and Yugoslavia. This is deeply moving emotional movie that engages you to step in the circle of hate and war between neighbors.