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

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

**SPOILERS because I want to save you from wasting your time with this movie!**When the movie started, I saw the IFC logo and an alarm went off in my head but I couldn't remember why. I would later find out that it was because this film embodies the worst in independent movies.The plot of this movie can be accurately summed up in two sentences: A group of aid workers drive around Yugoslavia looking for rope to fish a corpse out of a well. They fail. The end.What makes the movie awful is that it lacks anything to make it interesting besides the scenery and Tim Robbins' character having a few good lines. There is in character development, no message, no conflict, and no resolution. It just literally goes nowhere; I'm sure there are some lame film snobs who think this makes the movie "unique" or whatever but for the majority of people who watch movies to be told a story or be entertained it not only falls short but doesn't even try. The whole movie is just the cast driving around asking random Bosnians for rope and and getting denied at every turn for no reason. Throughout the movie they are paranoid about landmines and RPGs but I didn't hear a single explosion in the entire movie so it made the cast seem paranoid while breaking my suspension of disbelief.The writers in this movie definitely seem to have some sort of anti-UN agenda for whatever reason as evidenced by the movies bad ending where the UN literally sends an army of men with automatic weapons and tanks to stop the cast from removing the corpse from the well for some made up reason that really just seemed like bad writing to give the movie an unhappy ending just for the sake of having an unhappy ending in a lamely transparent attempt to make the film seem more "indie" or something. Independent movies with sad endings can still be really good (an excellent example of this is Donnie Darko) but with this movie it just made seem like over an hour and a half of frustration with no payoff. Watching this movie made me feel like I sat in traffic for over an hour and half to get somewhere only to find the place was closed and I sat in all that traffic for nothing.After the great army of the UN succeeds in their super-important mission to keep a corpse in a well they order the cast to clean the overflowing latrines in the overcrowded refugee camp, a task that should been reserved for whomever wrote this movie.Don't waste your time with this pile of garbage, you will regret it.

With a perfectly dramatic opening and stylish graphics this looked very promising - then the foolish dialogue for some overly simplistic characters begins to filter through, eroding the impact somewhat. I might imagine the original novel by Paula Farias, based on her experiences as an Aid worker in the field of war, could offer a better treatment of this important topic. But, Spanish screenwriter/director Fernando Leon de Aranoa, tends to choose a somewhat clichéd juvenile approach to the otherwise thoughtful, often nasty, situations. Some scenes work well while others languish in overstretched simplicity. If any solid observances come out of this work it's the telling ineptness of the U.N. ('United Nothing' as these writers aptly label it). The cast is attractive and the cinematography is of the higher calibre. Out of several selections of 'era' music, the most moving is a curious version of Pete Seeger's 60's anti-war ballad "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" sung by Marlene Dietrich. This imparts a stronger feel for the subject - lending a better impression to the overall movie than it fully deserves. Worth a look for its depiction of the cruel aspects of modern, international political warfare and the crushing impact it has on those living amongst the carnage. It's set towards the end of the Yugoslav wars and as we are being told here, rope is a scarce commodity, as it's mostly used to hang people. Not a great deal of fun in this so-called 'comedy'.

At first I was reluctant to see this film. The trailer showed Americans somewhere in the Balkans, observing the cruelty of war and helping out with their Western sensibilities. I've rarely seen a movie with this subject that I enjoyed.However, A Perfect Day is not that kind of movie. Firstly, it is deeply European! The violence is only hinted at - strange for a film made by a Spaniard :) - yet the viewer is awash in frustrations of the daily life of relief workers: the UN bureaucracy, the indifference of both international authorities and whatever local ones are, the lack of recognition from the people you try to help, lack of resources and going through all kinds of wacky situations.Yet the movie stands strangely on a pervasively optimistic note. The irony of the title doesn't come from the day not being perfect, but because it is the absolute best day in the life of these people, even when they couldn't do anything but not mess up completely.The acting is great, the script was fantastic, it is a worthwhile movie to watch.

Rubbish. This is a bad American comedy that attempts to appear different by virtue of its interesting setting; however, no setting, no matter how interesting, can make up for a terrible script, sexist typecast characters, and "Balkan" English consisting of no more than removing every article from local characters' lines. Benicio del Toro did his job well, but there's only so much a decent actor can do with terrible lines and an all-round crappy script. The number of instances in just the first hour in which women characters are scared or unreasonable and have to be rescued or calmed by an experienced, tough man was beyond cringe-worthy. I walked out after an hour and a quarter of this drivel.