Sadly Over-hyped

Boring

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I hardly ever watch movies with ex-Yugoslavia war theme. I know they are always one-sided, and somehow I thought this one would be different. I was wrong.While it rather nicely portrays horrors of war, why does it have to be only one side in the war that does wrong, awful things. There are quite a lot of American movies showing Americans doing horrible things in wars, but when the Serbs are around, nobody else is bad. I'm far from saying Serbs did nothing wrong, but, has any of Hollywood filmmakers ever did any actual research before making a movie about war in ex-Yugoslavia?? There is a moment in this movie when Brody says something like "there are no good and bad guys here, they're all the same" and it gave me hope that I've actually chosen a decent movie. However, just a bit later I was proved wrong... Awful!

This is one heck of a movie. Everything about it is just so wonderfully put together. The story is about a woman (Andie Mcdowell) and her journalist husband (I forget his name). While on a trip, her husband is reported dead, but Sarah (I remembered her name now) doesn't believe that is true, so, she sets out to find him. She doesn't go along, she goes with some other journalists (including Adrian Brody). This trip is a long, dangerous, and strenuous trip that shows the brutality of war, and the strong love between a woman and her husband. What happens I won't say of course, but the title of the movie has to do with the ending.The acting is phenomenal and the direction of the movie is superb. The script is great, however I found the dialog to be bland and had a little bit to much profanity, but its a really minor turn off. But the movie is a movie you can't forget, and its a must see for war fans and for fans of anyone in the cast.I rate it 10/10 (excellent) Rated R-Strong War Violence and Gruesome Images, Pervasive Language and Brief Drug Use

At firs i must say this: I did not see the movie.I read some comments about movie and i will explain now why i wrote without seeing the movie.I will watch it later for sure bur comment first. I vote with 5 because there are some elements which are very wrong.Sorry for my English.I am from Belgrade and i think that there were many wrong things in that war but not all of them are done by Serbs.There is other side if the war.They done things too.I think that the Croats are more nationalist now,especially then,then the Serbs.I am tired of watching this kind of movies.1 sided an pretty untrue.Sorry thats my opinion.Also i think that it is very stupid to go as a reporter in military uniform,especially at the time and place where is a lot of snipers.

This movie must be seen as a love story more than anything else, and it works as a love story. However, to get an accurate picture of the war between Yugoslavia and Croatia, Harrison's Flowers is not suited. Those familiar with the history of the former Yugoslavia know that war crimes took place in and around Vukovar, and in 1991-92, Serbian nationalist paramilitaries of Arkan were responsible for heinous crimes. However, the movie is very one-sided, and Serbians are presented as half-drunk criminal villains while Croatians get the image of brave freedom fighters. In fact, the vast majority of movies portray Serbians as the villains, but I would claim that Croatians are maybe even more nationalistic than the Serbs. Those who watch the movie should know that Croatians were also responsible for killing civilians, especially during Operation Storm in 1995.I have gained operational experience myself as a war correspondent, and I know what is like to be under fire from mortars, artillery and snipers. Therefore I was very surprised to see how the reporters and photographers from the movie entered Vukovar wearing military camouflages trying to hide from snipers. I don't know any reporters who would do it like this because it makes you a legitimate target, and I doubt experienced reporters from Newsweek would do it like that. The goal of a journalist in a war area is to be seen. Yes, sometimes you have to avoid checkpoints to get to the other side, but to wear a military uniform is very, very stupid.Now it has been a couple of days since I wrote my review, and there was another thing that bothered me in this movie. Sarah lands in the city of Graz in Austria making her way all through Croatia to get to Vukovar. If she really wanted to save her husband, it would have been a lot easier to get to Belgrade. From Belgrade there is only a two-hour drive to Vukovar, and the city was controlled by the Serbs at this point. I just spoke to a friend of mine who was an officer in Vukovar, and he said it would have been no problem for the character in the movie to get to Vukovar. Even if there were some paramilitaries present, the Yugoslav army, JNA, was in control.For more about the Battle of Vukovar, Wikipedia has an interesting article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vukovar