Excellent film, very well done.

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2012)

The movie might be more like a 7 or 8, but I feel a 10 is justified to counterbalance the people unnecessarily or unfairly rating the movie likely because Angelina Jolie is attached to it.
I appreciate all the effort and talent that went into this movie. The actors are excellent and I am actually really impressed at AJ's ability to put a movie together like this. It has a Clint Eastwood seamlessness to it. It's very smooth and it has a frankness and honesty to it that you would expect from a movie by her.
The movie is a very normal length, especially for a war movie (2 hours). There's not a lot of surprises but it's just a well done movie (again, very similar to Eastwood films). It also has the subtle calm in the film just like Eastwood movies. Maybe it's an actor as a director/producer thing. My criticism is that I wish I had actually learned more about the war and the politics of the situation than I did and that it focused less on the love story. But all that aside, I am impressed by the work and am glad I watched the film. I especially am a new fan of Goran Kostic!