Savior

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Summary: A gripping, powerful and realistic picture of the war.
Review: Savior is a movie showing real events and emotions of a war that continues today. It has excellent music, scenery and acting. It is well written by Robert Orr and leaves you stunned and horrified at what people can do to each other. But, in the end, there is redemption. Worthwhile viewing.

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Summary: DON'T DARE TO MISS IT
Review: IT'S EXCELLENT. REALLY OUTSTANDING. WHY ? CAUSE IT IS BASED IN REAL FACTS. WATCH CAREFULLY THE REAL SIDE OF A WAR.

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Summary: EXCELLENT MOVIE!!!
Review: The Savior provides a rare glimpse and an objective account of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990's from the point of view of an American that finds himself involved in the conflict due to personal reasons. The movie tackles the brutality and complexity of a war that has repeatedly fallen victim to distortion and propaganda by different parties with different agendas (both direct and indirect "players" with a high stake in the Balkans). Dennis Quaid's performance is outstanding, making this movie a great movie indeed, and one worth watching!

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Summary: Mostly one sided and misleading
Review: The movie, in my opinion, is propaganda against Muslims. I am a Muslim from Bosnia and I believe the movie made by a Serb is completely favoring the Serbs. One part especially disturbing to me was the rape of the Serb woman by Muslims. Anyone who knows anything about the conflict knows that it was the Serbs who used rape as a weapon of war in their ethnic cleansing of Muslims. Ofcourse the Muslims are not without blame but the entire movie seems to switch the roles of the Serbs and Muslims. For someone who doesn't know about Bosnia and what happened this movie could completely give them the wrong message. Until the Serbs stop making propagandist movies such as this and admit to themselves and their victims what they did and why there will never be peace in the Balkans.

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Summary: A Very Intense Anti-War Film
Review: Some reviewers have criticized this film for allegedly being pro-Serb. But this film portrays all sides of the Balkans conflict in a very unflattering light. The real message of this film is not that Serbs are good and their opponents are bad; rather, it is that the Balkan conflict wasn't the simplistic bad, evil Serbs versus the poor, innocent Bosnian Muslims and Croats conflict that was portrayed in the Western news media. The film is historically accurate in the sense that it makes clear that all sides, not just the Serbs, were guilty of war crimes against civilians.

The movie starts out in Paris, where an American (Dennis Quaid) loses his wife and child to Muslim terrorists. After he exacts revenge by taking the the law into his own hands, he flees to the French Foreign Legion under an assumed identity. Seeking to fight for a cause he can believe in, he joins the Serbs fighting against Muslim Bosnians, only to be disillusioned after witnessing Serb brutality against Muslim civilians, and their wrath against a Serb woman whose only crime was to be raped and impregnated by a Muslim. He tries to rescue the Serb woman and her child, and, along the way, witnesses massacres of Serb civilians first by Muslims and then by Croats.

This is, more than anything, an anti-war movie, and it is much better than most other films about the Balkan conflict, which tend to come across as preachy, anti-Serb propaganda.

One thing to note, however, is that while Nastassia Kinsky is given top billing as one of the films stars, she only appears in the film for about five minutes, as Dennis Quaid's wife, before she is killed off.

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Summary: Sad but true...
Review: War in south-eastern europe (Croatia and Bosnia) during the nineties wasn't a confrontation between gentlemen : believe it or not, it has ALWAYS happened like that in these countries. Atrocities toward civilians were made by ALL sides (Croats, Serbs and Muslims). This honest and interesting movie shows that clearly. In spite of that I was already aware of these facts, this fictional story, of an american soldier of fortune, whose family had been previously killed by muslim terrorists and, then fighting alongside the Serbs, had some impact on me. Many scenes were so realistically shot that it was 'painfull' to watch them (especially the last one)... Maybe not the best war movie ever produced but, you shouldn't miss it, just to have an objective opinion about what really occured in former yugoslavia.