Why look for bones?

Rating: 1/10 (25 March 2015)

I know nothing about the history here. It could be any where at any time and I still can't imagine why, with your life clock ticking away, one would spend their valuable time looking for a loved one's remains, especially if you already know what their fate was.
They are gone. They don't need those bones any more and you don't either.
The movie starts out in an Australian desert with Russell Crowe digging a well and finding water. This is a clever foreshadowing to future events.
Fast froward to Turkey where Thousands of soldiers have lost their lives in a wartime battle covering miles of ground. 3 of those dead were Crowe's sons. He has sneaked in the battlefield where other soldiers who also have nothing better to do, are collecting bones and supposedly identifying them, although nothing is explained how they are attempting to do that.
Next we see Crowe looking for his son's bones the way he did with a divining stick looking for water back in Australia and viola, he sticks the wood in the ground and proclaims that is where his son's bones are.
Sure enough, a soldier finds a watch of one of the boys on that spot.
Sure enough that is where I stopped watching. The only question I would like answered is: who would finance such a worthless movie?