Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. I think about it all the time whenever I hear or read about civil wars, religious wars, and innocent victims. That's why I have to write this review after all these years.This is a personal story in an impersonal civil war. A family story in a country torn apart. A story of friendship in a religious fight. The bigger events outside beyond your control spill into your private world. There can be no winners as everyone is a victim. That's what tears your heart apart.The director and actors have a lot to work with because the script is outstanding. And they all did a great and sensitive job. They did not try to moralize, only to tell the story in small frames to give you the close up feelings so you can sense the tension. The progression explains how and why a close friendship and family bond are shattered. In the end, everyone must do what the circumstance dictates.A true tragedy that's repeated millions of time all over the world for thousands of years. Yet, we have not learned. That's the real tragedy!

Excellent TV production, harsh, moving, real. To watch it hurt me almost at a physical level, I have lived in Sarajevo, I know the city, it's people, and I understand their plight. Take it from somebody who has been there; this is a movie well made, the situations, feelings and emotions it depicts are very real, almost exactly as it was. There is no overt dramatization here, no going over the top; I almost felt as if I was there... Unbelievably good for a TV movie.If there is one weak point in the film, it is that they should have utilized local actors, they should have filmed it in the original language with subtitles. That would have made the movie even more powerful. Well done!

I have been in Sarajevo during the horrible civil war, and this movie shows how really it happened. I have been in all of the places they showed in the movie and, yes it is how happened. Acting is great. Actors did very good job, also music was good. This movie is one of those movies who present the real war (like Saving Private Ryan), not like many fake movies do. It is worthy of watching.

Shot through the heart is the best film I've seen on the Bosnia war. Others I have seen are Welcome to Sarajevo, Savior, Pretty Village, all good films, but this is the best. It really shows the true situation, and I couldn't help feeling the anger when the lead character says before the war, "just let them try to have a war, the American's will come right in like in the Gulf".This film is totally on location in Sarajevo, and you can see all the bombed out buildings. The main character has to make a big decision: whether to let his friendship with a Yugoslav turned Serb murderer get in the way of defending his neighborhood, or not. Very well done and well acted. I think this film must have hit too close to home for Sarajevans filmed so soon after the actual siege took place.Other good films I recommend: Ulysses Gaze, Underground, Cafe Balkan, Vukovar.