Best movie of this year hands down!

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

To make a commercially viable film out of a far-from attractive scenario, this film has resorted to low-brow slightly comedic buddy-ism.The three stars, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard and Jesse Eisenberg are so dissimilar, both as actors as in characters - Gere, the silver-haired fox is a drunken senior news reporter who seriously messed up live on air and now has a bounty to find and an axe to grind; Howard, who is black and was Gere's cameraman but since Gere's sacking has been promoted and now has a cushy job and a playing away gorgeous wife. And, the usually very watchable and enjoyable Eisenberg is now a mumbling nerd of a first-time abroad reporter, given the chance only as he's directly related to the vice-president of the TV company.This all sits at odds with the aftermath of the Serb-Croat war and jam- packed into the 100mins running time, is everything from Playboy James Bond, gritty action and soppily stringed pathos. Lots of shuttling back and fore along with the realistic tracking down of 'The Fox', a war criminal wanted by the U.N. These scenes are the sort that shout out for Jean Reno, gruff and mean, not laughably smug Gere and cowardly Eisenberg.Lots of serious issues are dealt with and even more discouraging are the end credits - the usual, serious warning about still-at-large war criminals and the disturbing facts and figures are followed immediately by a sort of Shrek-style comedic take out on what each of the characters then went on to do.To say that this dilutes the film's purpose is an understatement and the reason for my 5/10. For action fans, it's not a bad movie and those who just want to leave their brains in the pub, then it's got some mileage and is entertaining enough and would score 6 or even 7/10.

Biased movie, made just in time to show the world once more that "Serbs are terrorists and war criminals that did atrocities to Muslim Bosnians" just before Muslim Albanian terrorists in Kosovo proclaimed independence 1 year later. I'm not trying to make this political simply because this movie is political itself! I hope Gere received a lot of money for this, because being a humanitarian and acting in biased movies that show false picture of serious things, like civil wars are, is really hilarious. It was Gere back in 2007, now in 2011 it's Angelina Jolie making another movie about "Serbian monsters and Bosnian helpless people". I wonder how much money did she get for directing something like that. Anyway, back to this movie, as I said, it's not worth watching, unless you have low IQ and you allow others to construct your own opinion about something that you, they and no one else know, except those people who actually lived there, saw and heard things and survived that civil war.

Without getting into plot-revealing details, this movie plays to clichés and stereotypes for about an hour and then truly falls apart. For the first 80 minutes or so the script is more or less based on events written up by journalist Scott Anderson for the October 2000 issue of Esquire, and then in the end it falls off the cliff towards a wholly imaginary, unconvincing and throughly uninspired all's-well-that-ends-well conclusion. The first part is relatively watchable but meddles too much with the number, motives and characters of the protagonists to ring true. It fails from the very beginning to convey why war journalists would choose to pursue such a dangerous profession, what kinds of personal relationships they might develop with Bosnian and Serbian locals, how they would respond when coming across dead bodies of unknown victims or people known to them, or how they would act when faced immediately after with the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. Instead, we are supposed to think that war journalism is mostly about thrill-seeking and being recognized "in the whole world" as "the best" at your game, or that courage and resolve in the face of life-threatening danger can only come from a desire to avenge personal loss of the most hackneyed kind. These same journalists are apparently incapable of discretion but instead have loud and revealing conversations in places where they could easily be overheard, while the incredibly terrible leader of the evildoers is surrounded by psychopathic henchmen, yet easily caught off guard and chased around the landscape by unarmed pursuers (who seem to somehow know the local forest a lot better than he does). The concluding part of the story does not even try to come up with any detailed plot or dialog, but relies instead on voice-overs, fast-forwards and wholly trivial lines lacking any genuine punch. The one aspect that struck me as well done is the documentary-like cinematography and imagery, with rich colors and relatively gritty contrast.

This movie was great; though a movie and any word cannot describe the horrors of the war in Bosnia, I'd say this was a good movie. More than 30,000 Bosniak women were raped in Bosnia by Serb soldiers and local authorities; many men, women, and children died in this horrific war and some were enlisted as "missing" due to the unidentified bodies dug through the mass graves of the detention/concentration camps all over Bosnia. Some Serb soldiers, including ones with high ranks, picked every woman and young girls for repeated rape and selling them for prostitution; Bosniak women were also forced into prostitution in whore houses made by the Serbs such as the 'Karaman House' in the town of 'Foc' and this wasn't the worst of the cases. Many people thought that Hitler was the worst of the worst in Humanity, but not many have even heard of the mastermind behind the brutal genocide in Bosnia- his name was Milosovic of Serbia who's of course in prison right now. Some Serbs soldiers who were accused of rape served in prison for about 10-20 years and most either ran from prison or weren't accused at all and are living peaceful lives in Serbia. Nazi Germany reverted to it's normal government after WWII, but Serbia never regretted the war and so till this day Serbians are proud of how they raped what was once a beautiful country to what is now a dark alley filled with memories of horror. No one can understand what Bosnia went through because what's more horrific is how a rape victim lives throughout her life- remembering each detail of the events and faces that took away her happiness. The Serbs' brutality is many movies today, I personally liked the movie "Harisson's Flowers".