Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Elisabeth Irene From the first second I started this movie it had me on the tip of my seat for the rest of the duration of the film. So much suspense and thrill and hurt and emotions..... The battlefield scenes were so touching. Him talking about his children. The few flash forwards and the fact that he just felt things he could have never known for sure just really touched me. Now mind you, I am Aussie nor am I Turkish. I am a humble girl from Holland and even though I have loved my history classes (up to a certain extent), here they have never taught us anything about the battle of Gallipoli, just a faint story about Troy, so this was all the more interesting to me as I am just a fan of war stories - not so much a fan of war, just to be clear - and a good flash back in time to make me feel as if I was there, right in the middle of it is just everything for me. To feel every emotion they are feeling and/or must have been feeling at a certain point in, for a certain period of time....all that to come to that crappy ending! The synopsis of the ending itself was fine but it just stopped so sudden I just thought ''what in the frock is this.''I just thought the ending could have ended just a bit more subtle. Now it was just like ''okay well this is the end of the movie and you know it so.. bye bye!''That just kind of ruined it for me. Especially since it's often the ending that stays with one the longest.This still should not prevent you from thinking that this is a crappy movie, cause this is definitely a must-see. MUST. Still, crappy ending.

Robert J. Maxwell An Australian water diviner, Russell Crowe, loses three sons at Gallipoli in Turkey and after the war travels to the battlefield to retrieve their corpses. I know. It sound lugubrious -- a heavenly choir, the vanquishing of red tape by empathy, as the water diviner divines the skeletons of his sons, one by drawn-out one, and schleps them back home to Australia, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.Actually, it has plenty of color and dash and it doesn't turn out as expected. Shot in Australia and Turkey, there are some marvelous location shots as we're introduced not just to the battlefield but to Ottoman culture. A stunning shot of the interior of the blue mosque.Among the Ottoman artifacts is Olga Kurylenko. Somewhere, a religious cult should be established in her honor, its symbol her sternoclavicular notch. What a dish. Body by Bernini, neck by Modigliani. Suddenly, that line from "Dr. Strangelove" -- "toe to toe with the Russkies" -- doesn't sound like such a bad idea.The romance is subdued, as is Russell Crowe's performance. He's gained weight and lost definition since "L.A. Confidential" and his bulk now resembles that of John Wayne, a kind of massive heft that his brain orders about. He's quite professional as a director too, fond of overhead shots, but not too fond.The editor should be fired. Sometimes it was easy to get lost. There are flash forwards of whirling dervishes only you don't know they're flash forwards. The whirling dervishes are the decorous public kind, clean and dazed looking, not the Dionysian wild men of the tribal areas. I don't know how they can do it without falling down after the first few minutes.The film is more sympathetic to some of the Turkish soldiers now occupying the battlefield than it is with the British and Australian graves unit. The villains are Greeks, and there are scenes of battle resembling the perforated train sequence in "Lawrence of Arabia" and one or two echoes of "Young Churchill." The bloody combat scenes are disturbing in that they cause you to worry somewhat about just what the solution to the Middle East is.

emeraldertem I think that The Water Diviner was great. I am a teenager who certainly did not want to spend her Saturday evening watching a movie about war, but at the end I really liked it.I loved the fact that it was mostly unbiased since not a lot of movies these years have that about them. The people of the Middle Eastern countries are always bad people and Muslim people are always terrorists is what is generally portrayed in movies today. But that was not the case in The Water Diviner. The Water Diviner displayed the idea that people of different countries, different places can unite. That a person shouldn't be defined by the country they're from.I think this was both an excellent and a very educational movie that had just the right amount of sentiment and action. I congratulate Russel Crowe and all the actors of The Water Diviner and hope you watch this movie.

vincentlynch-moonoi I have never particularly been a fan of Russell Crowe, although once in a while he has starred in films where he has impressed me (e.g., "Gladiator", "A Beautiful Mind"). But with this film, in my view, Crowe has crossed over into something more than just a good actor...now he is a fine director. I am guessing that Russell Crowe sees this film as his masterpiece. And rightfully so.That is not to say that this is a perfect film. First of all, it failed at the box office, and the reason is that it is a very complex film. To appreciate this film, you really need to be a serious film-watcher.Second, Crowe has attempted to tackle a very difficult topic -- looking at the collision of two cultures, and unlike many films about two cultures, this is about two cultures that seemingly can never the twain meet. Although I knew very little about the Battle Of Gallipoli, with only a few battle scenes, the suffering of that conflagration is vividly depicted. Few films have shown the horror of war more successfully than does this one. There are a few scenes -- the railroad scene, for example -- that remind me just a bit of David Lean's work.It would be fair to call this film epic in nature. The scope is broad, the various settings often stunning, and this is one of the few films I have ever seen where I felt the film should have been longer.There are times that what we are seeing is confusing, particularly in regard to some of the cultural aspects of Turkey. That's where I feel that a few more minutes might have avoided some of the confusion as to what we are seeing.I was truly impressed with the acting here,almost without exception. Crowe is superb; perhaps the best he has ever been...now that he is in middle age. Olga Kurylenko, a Ukranian actress, is excellent. Dylan Georgiades, an Australian child actor is as good as I've ever seen. Yılmaz Erdoğan, a Kurdish actor playing a general, is excellent, as well. Ryan Corr as the one son who lived is very good, although we don't see too much of him, even though he is actually the focus of the film.Thank you, Mr. Crowe, for a very fine effort. A truly touching film.