I am not familiar with the history of Serbia and neighboring countries but both the historic aspect and cinematic aspect seem to be poorly handled in this movie. Maybe the producer has some agenda here.Three people hunting for a dangerous criminal in a dangerous place. Without any planning whatsoever! Hunt's friend who has pretty much moved on suddenly decides to throw away his career and join Hunt in this wild goose chase! Not at all convincing. Very weak story. Also portraying Muslims of Bosnia as good folks and Serbians as bloodthirsty scums seems unfair. It's unlikely that in a war things could be so black and white.

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.

I gave this movie 1/10, even though it's not that bad at all, and I know it. First of all, I want you to know something, before you think I'm just being unreal. I was too young to be emotionally involved with this war, while it lasted. Second, my grandmother was Croatian, my grandfather was Slovak and my father's parents are Serbian/Slovak, so I consider myself an 'ethnical chaos' and thus have no nationalistic views. That war was just wrong, and innocent men, women and children (on BOTH sides) died for someone's 'higher interests'. There is no truth. There ARE many, covered with blood, and they all deserve to be heard. Instead, I'm watching the same ol' scenario over the years - the 'all American' scenario. So, here comes the brave and daring Richard Gere, with the famous American justice seeking thirst (ha!) in his guts and Chuck Norris as his idol. He is on his way to get his revenge (and, just for the sake of it, his career back) over a war criminal responsible for massacre over an entire Muslim village (and not just one), and Gere's sweetheart who was (oh, boy, was this unexpected...) pregnant with his child. Even if this movie brings up a good point, it is well known a long time ago. Even if it was made for good causes, they are pushed aside by the anger that every Balkan inhabitant feels when he sees a trailer about an upcoming blockbuster with the one and only (american) peacemakers. I am so sick of it! And I'm sure many decent Americans are sick of it as well!Of course, no one forced me to watch it, my bad... I can promise you one - it won't happen again.

I watched this movie yesterday and I'm still having stomach ache, because of it. This is a way to far from the worst movie I've ever seen, but may be the racist movie of the decade. Once again, the Serbs are filmed as bloody, filthy, freaky bustards that only live for killing and raping. This is the worst prejudice of one nation that is ever filmed on the movie screen! I write this review after Radovan Karadzic is already imprisoned in Hague tribunal. So they finally get him... but who arrested him??? Was it American journalists or CIA or Interpol? NO! Serbs arrested him and took him to justice, without US to interfere. OK, a long time passed before Karadzic was arrested, but better now than never.And what about the end of the movie? What kind of human-beings leave a man suspected for war-crimes ( still not convicted), without a fair trial or any trial? Is that an American justice? No human rights for all... Should we people make our own law and judgements or leave it to courts? This movie is filled with prejudice, hate, and misunderstandings. So, don't waste your time watching it.