Not without it's flaws, but very enjoyable movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2015)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"The Water Diviner" (2014) is a guilty pleasure. Uneven, yet very enjoyable movie almost till the end. First half of this movie was superb, surprisingly highly involving, very skilfully made and very intriguingly written. At the end it kinda lost it's road with ending somehow easily and bit on the "adventurous mode". That said, "The Water Diviner" is very good directorial debut by a great Russell Crowe. The man also stars in a lead role and goes on a journey at the end of WW1 to find his three missing sons in a Galipoli war, known as one of the bloodiest battles in a 20 century. There isn't much of war battles in this movie, although there are some, and they are done well here and serves more to story as well as shows the gritty war side.
Overall, "The Water Diviner" is a good movie. It's has very involving, intriguing, sad and very well told story, although this story loses a bit at the end. The thing i didn't like was Olga Kurylenko - she's is very pretty but i think she is overrated, i don't have anything against her but it's hard to take it seriously to see model Olga Kurylenko always with a perfect makeup in Turkey during WW1, it's just odd casting. Isabel Lucas had a very small but surprisingly good role. Russell Crowe was OK / good but nothing special. Overall i can recommend this movie because you will definitely will enjoy this for the most part. At running time almost 2 hours this movie never drags, and that is a big plus to Russell Crowe direction.