An average movie

Since I had this movie already like for ages (seriously, I think I bought the dvd at least 2 years ago), I thought it was finally time to check it out. Basically, it is a pretty obscure movie dealing with the war in Yugoslavia and even though it was intriguing, it didn’t completely worked very well. For instance, the intro with Nastassja Kinski (who gets second billing but was in the movie only for the first 5 minutes) was really weak, some old scene with a guy probably working with some government agency and his wife whining about it. Then, she gets killed and, out of nowhere, you get Dennis Quaid rushing to the mosque nearby and killing a whole bunch of Muslims at random. It was really unexpected and quite brutal and I was really wondering what would happen next. Unfortunately, the whole thing was rather poorly told and you had to guess a lot since many things remained untold. Eventually, for no real reason, you get an American involved in a historical set which had nothing to do with the USA which is a gimmick I always find rather underwhelming. To conclude, even though it is rather flawed, it remains a rather raw and ruthless depiction of the nastiest European war since WWII and I still think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested by the subject.

6/10