Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2015)

I went to this film with high hopes, having seen so many good reviews. I was very disappointed. The film did not flow, it was just a bunch of short scenes joined up with no particular segue. The Turkish kid was so annoying (we are expected to believe that RC could find his way through a strange city chasing a kid he constantly loses sight of, then he ends up in the right place), the romance was totally unnecessary and took up too much time in the movie, the British were badly stereotyped (yes I know they were not the good guys). And divining the graves of his sons in such a large battle field, come off it. The bullet hole in the back of the skull was in the wrong place. So many parts of the story did not make sense or were impossible on closer scrutiny. And lastly, why set the beginning in north west Victoria and film it in South Australia, the countrysides are totally different. Maybe I am just too fussy but I kept seeing glaring errors throughout.
This could have been a great movie - it was a fairly good idea. Shame.