It took me years to see the film and despite the bad reviews I thought of giving it the benefit of the doubt BUT huh it's such a bad bad film. Poorly acted, no reasonable storyline. The dialog seems a direct translation from the English language and on top it's not accurately portraying the circumstances at the time. Shame the film could have done so much more to tell what happened.

First of all, I want to mention that I haven't watched the movie nor will I because of personal reasons and also because it just isn't appealing enough to me. I don't know much about what happened during the Bosnian war nor the other Yugoslav wars simply because I wasn't born then yet. I've read stories and heard different interpretations of the misdeeds and atrocities that happened, as well as of the reasons why it all happened. I will conclude only one thing and that is that "it's very complicated" as one of the characters said himself. Therefore I think that Angelina Jolie, someone who comes from a country that has committed many misdeeds and was, in my opinion, very much involved in the atrocities that happened in the Balkans, had no business interpreting these events in her own way and making it into a highly publicized movie. I won't say that her interpretation is completely inaccurate, but she covered only one side of the story, while ignoring the other, deliberately or not. I personally believe that she didn't have bad intentions, she just didn't observe all the aspect and was full of prejudice and bias towards Serbian people, which is consequently creating a wrong picture in the world. It was just too much for her to take on and handle as it is such a controversial topic and it entails a great deal of responsibility. Reading the comments and the reviews of this movie made me realize that the movie had such a bad impact on interpersonal relations between people of different nationalities and religions in the Balkans, where the tension was already running high, that it made the situation significantly worse.To those who want to read about this war as I believe it happened, I recommend reading this: http://www.balkanstudies.org/articles/understanding-balkan-wars To summarize, a war is something you have to live through in order to know enough to make a movie about it and present it to the world. This specific war is particularly difficult and traumatic because of the number of innocent victims and the tragic consequences that are still appreciable. Therefore I think Angelina shouldn't have made this movie (this way) because it just reminds all the people who survived the war of the tragic events, as well as the unresolved issues and repressed feelings that are still very present. In the times when we are trying to break free from the past and make things better, this kind of reminder is not welcome.

I give this movie 1 because of talentless Angelina Jolie as a director, she is also talentless as an actress, but when she look good who cares. The only movies she shined in were disturbing movies. I also though it was a waste of time as Angelina seemed still very confused as to which direction to take the movie in. Even if it was biased I would have much preferred if someone like Steven Spielberg directed this kind of a big chunk of. movie, because he has a knack for reeling in watchers into a movie even some with ridiculous story lines. I also felt hat the movie lacked empathy and real emotions instead it was filled with disgusting scenes and crap over dramatic effects.

Wow, I'm intrigued by the number of these reviews that take to bagging on the writing and direction of Ms. Jolie, particularly in lieu of actually dissecting the movie. Is this because she is exceptionally well-known (and from what I know, not particularly well-liked) and it's easy to stomp on? Really weird.I actually enjoyed this movie. It was depressing and awful due to the social themes it explored which was, well, the whole point. It follows a woman and what she does not only to survive the war but help her people. I thought it had some clever twists and was overall a good story. I enjoyed it. Would I watch it again? Probably not, but I definitely wasn't huffing and puffing in anger after I watched it. It was a pretty good film!