Great Starting

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2015)

The Water Diviner is the first movie of Russell Crowe, about being director. It is his first job but he is pretty successful. He is an excellent actor and, we can see that, he will be a great director.
The film is about a father who send his 3 children to the war, and who tries to find his 3 children's body after the war, in Çanakkale. The name of the father is Connor (Russell Crowe). Connor comes to İstanbul, Turkey, and finds two men, Major Hasan (Yılmaz Erdoğan) and Jemal (Cem Yılmaz), who will help to find his children.
Most of war movies include kind of supporting one nationality, they would be just one side, and there are extremely heroism and bravery. We can say that, in this film, there are no things like that. It is so modest, also it shows us war is a terrible thing for everyone.
Some people believe that, this film is a Hollywood movie owing to Russell Crowe. In fact, It is not. The Water Diviner is made by Australia and Turkey productions.
In general, from my point of view, It is a great movie from Russell Crowe who has Oscar.