juneebuggy
Enjoyed this, it has a very original feel and is helped along by solid acting from Gere, Howard and even Eisenberg. I enjoyed the tone of this movie; serious yet sarcastic, realistic yet as the opening title card says "Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true." Terence Howard narrates throughout as we follow a young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent as they embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia.There's nothing really flashy about this, no huge special effects but the story is intriguing, and I enjoyed seeing things from a journalist's perspective. The fact that they're able to stumble upon "The Fox" even though the CIA "can't" find him, is comical. Some of the scenes were wrapped up a little too easily. Gere's character is heartbreaking, he's so broken. Was impressed by Eisenberg especially in the torture scene with the tattooed dude with the axe, he looked genuinely scared. 8/24/14
NemkeSRB
Biased movie, made just in time to show the world once more that "Serbs are terrorists and war criminals that did atrocities to Muslim Bosnians" just before Muslim Albanian terrorists in Kosovo proclaimed independence 1 year later. I'm not trying to make this political simply because this movie is political itself! I hope Gere received a lot of money for this, because being a humanitarian and acting in biased movies that show false picture of serious things, like civil wars are, is really hilarious. It was Gere back in 2007, now in 2011 it's Angelina Jolie making another movie about "Serbian monsters and Bosnian helpless people". I wonder how much money did she get for directing something like that. Anyway, back to this movie, as I said, it's not worth watching, unless you have low IQ and you allow others to construct your own opinion about something that you, they and no one else know, except those people who actually lived there, saw and heard things and survived that civil war.
vitezbg
Classic Serbophobic movie, sometimes very silly.All world forces in the world can not catch Dr. Radovan Karadzic,but Richard Gere can.In the end even beat him.Ha,ha,...In reality Dr. Radovan Karadzic is real intelligence person comparing Richard Gere.It is very interesting that Gere accept acting such silly movie. The movie point is to collect Muslim tension to Serbs,instead the real problems such is Israel,Iraq and Afganistan occupation,war crimes in Lebanon,...This film will be forgotten very fast,because of his short-term purpose.And probably will not be accepted by international audience.People are not stupid ,to believe in low cost budget films.Anyway ,time will give answers.
lastliberal
It's the 5th anniversary of the end of the Bosnian conflict, and two buddies are reunited. One on the way down after an on-air crackup (Richard Gere), and one rising (Terrance Howard.Simon (Gere) has a line on a war criminal in hiding (Ljubomir Kerekes). He convinces Duck (Howard) and a young journalist (Jesse Eisenberg) to join him on the hunt. The reason for the hunt is made clear later. It is gut-wrenching.It's a good buddy movie - funny, exciting at times, terribly sad at others, and Gere & Howard play off each other brilliantly.Brilliant ending - too bad we can't catch the criminals and do it for real.