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A Masterpiece!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Blistering performances.

If its a comedy and I don't even smile a bit in 15/20 minutes. Im out

I am not familiar with the history of Serbia and neighboring countries but both the historic aspect and cinematic aspect seem to be poorly handled in this movie. Maybe the producer has some agenda here.Three people hunting for a dangerous criminal in a dangerous place. Without any planning whatsoever! Hunt's friend who has pretty much moved on suddenly decides to throw away his career and join Hunt in this wild goose chase! Not at all convincing. Very weak story. Also portraying Muslims of Bosnia as good folks and Serbians as bloodthirsty scums seems unfair. It's unlikely that in a war things could be so black and white.

To make a commercially viable film out of a far-from attractive scenario, this film has resorted to low-brow slightly comedic buddy-ism.The three stars, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard and Jesse Eisenberg are so dissimilar, both as actors as in characters - Gere, the silver-haired fox is a drunken senior news reporter who seriously messed up live on air and now has a bounty to find and an axe to grind; Howard, who is black and was Gere's cameraman but since Gere's sacking has been promoted and now has a cushy job and a playing away gorgeous wife. And, the usually very watchable and enjoyable Eisenberg is now a mumbling nerd of a first-time abroad reporter, given the chance only as he's directly related to the vice-president of the TV company.This all sits at odds with the aftermath of the Serb-Croat war and jam- packed into the 100mins running time, is everything from Playboy James Bond, gritty action and soppily stringed pathos. Lots of shuttling back and fore along with the realistic tracking down of 'The Fox', a war criminal wanted by the U.N. These scenes are the sort that shout out for Jean Reno, gruff and mean, not laughably smug Gere and cowardly Eisenberg.Lots of serious issues are dealt with and even more discouraging are the end credits - the usual, serious warning about still-at-large war criminals and the disturbing facts and figures are followed immediately by a sort of Shrek-style comedic take out on what each of the characters then went on to do.To say that this dilutes the film's purpose is an understatement and the reason for my 5/10. For action fans, it's not a bad movie and those who just want to leave their brains in the pub, then it's got some mileage and is entertaining enough and would score 6 or even 7/10.

Making successful movies on civil wars is always a difficult task demanding dedication to the idea of objectiveness and complexity needed for artistic perception of madness that surrounds the tragedy of such conflict. This movie fails on so much levels that it can hardly be enumerated. Firstly, the script is so simplified and shows deeply misunderstanding of not only Bosnian, but probably any civil war conflict at all. In order to make a distinctive movie you must firstly avoid stereotype on solely bad and good guys, because that this is not a comic book, but real life in all of its cruelty and sorrow.The peoples of Bosnia have been living for centuries together and have the same genetic origin. This is important to say, because this movie shows one people as ugly bunch of cavemen including even children. There are words in the script that the main characters must be careful when they leave Bosnian capital Sarajevo because they enter into the land of raping and murdering. Thus we have a superhero dressed as a reporter who faces with the biggest horrors in the Earth in his efforts to find and capture the villain and the movie clearly suggests us that all of this people are villains and that there is no difference between them at all. With such a bad script acting stays irrelevant. The acting is in the service of propaganda unworthy of beautiful art of film making.