It's a solid 8

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2015)

The Water Diviner shows the emotional aftermath after the battle of Canakkale ( Gallipoli) which had a deep impact on the Turkish and Australian people.The story is about a father (Russell Crow) looking for his three missing sons.The tragic part of the story is that it was the first time the Australian people suffered a great deal of casualties and gained nothing at the end.What I liked about this movie was that they showed both the Australians's and Turk's perspective of the aftermath, which showed that war IS war and no matter what both sides suffer.Considering it was Russell Crowe's first movie as a director, I think he did really well especially the scene where one brother is on the ground and the other two go to help him and they all fall.One of them dies quickly and the other is hurt but not severely and the last one is on the ground moaning in pain.In the end he asks his brother to shoot him so he can have a quick death which he does.This fictional story is based upon the real events that occurred in 1918, which lead to the fall of the Ottoman Empire.All in all it is a great movie except for the ending which I found it somewhat predictable.Other then that a really good movie.