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I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Blistering performances.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

There are incorrect practices portrayed in movie about Islam. This movie is not the place to learn about Islam and make comments about facts on Islam.4 persons are needed in witnessing adultery otherwise no action can be taken. Be warned to not learn about Islam through movies such as this. Grow up. Find out and learn.The movie is about the good and the bad in humans. The uneducated will choose the path that is to their preference irregardless of the laws of the countries or laws of religions. Seek knowledge. Seek knowledge. Seek knowledge.

It's a great movie. Its story is nice and real. Kandahar Break in its attempt to highlight Afghanistan as a brutal place before British and American troops removed the Taliban leaders. And it also shows Baloch freedom fighters of Baluchistan struggle for an independent Baluchistan.Afghanistan as a place under Taliban rulers may no longer exist, but Kandahar Break attempts to take us back there with a story about love, loss and revenge. Rather than a film about war, it's more about a man's personal journey and what happens when he finds love in a place which forbids it. Tatmain Ul Qulb as Jamilah, the woman he falls in love with, is beautiful and captivating. Her time on screen though limited to flashbacks is enough to make her presence felt throughout. As a love story, I would have liked to have seen it from her perspective and to learn why she would risk everything for an affair with Richard.As an outsider in Afghanistan, Richard has no idea about the rules, customs and the religion of the people there. As he makes no attempt to learn about any of these, he finds himself singled out as an infidel. When met with hostility he protests that he is English and pleads for them to speak English with him. I've come to know from several of my own travels that by learning even a few words of a country's language, you are more likely to receive a warmer reception than by not doing so. Richard's affair with Jamilah follows a similar pattern, and though we see why he would fall in love with her, I found it hard to see why she would reciprocate.

On Sunday 12th September, along with over 150 people, I was invited to the Cineworld cinema in Bolton to watch a screening of local boy David WHITNEY's first full length film "Kandahar Break". It was a brilliant experience to see the film on Bolton's largest cinema screen and was followed by a question and answer session with Mr Whitney and Director of photography…Russell Nabb. 15 interesting questions were asked before time ran out, each meticulously answered by either film maker. They gave the audience a clear insight into the problems facing the intrepid film-makers who's film was so controversial in the land of filming that the crew themselves were fired on resulting in the wounding of 2 crew members (not fatally I was relieved to hear,) and then the impending need to swiftly leave the country. Mainly filmed in Pakistan, the film touches on many issues which are completely out of the comfort zone of many British citizens, whatever ethnic background. Set in Afghanistan in 1999, the film centres on a British mine clearance firm employed by an oil company working alongside the Taliban government. Tense moments…reminiscent of 'HURT LOCKER' begin the film which develops into a touching story of forbidden love as two individual worlds, totally alien to each other, and the British and Afghan cultures, come together so ferociously and clash in a story of contradictions, interpretations and misunderstandings…of which a certain William Shakespeare would have been proud. Kandahar Break moves swiftly in to a tense escape movie with its fair share of plot twists and surprisingly (and most welcome) a few moments of light relief in the form of the freedom fighter Omar Baloch. The audience is continually asked to judge their own attitudes and preconceptions to the cultural differences portrayed in the film right up to the final climatic scene. Enough of the critical film-flam! Kandahar Break is exciting, poignant, cruel, controversial and beautifully filmed in locations far removed from anywhere in the UK. Shaun Dooley in the lead role is extremely convincing in his portrayal of love-torn mine clearance engineer, Richard Lee, alongside his beautiful co-star Tatmain ul Qulb. The role of Omar Baloch played by famous Pakistan actor Hameed Sheik is also a delight to watch and I suspect is a nod to some of Directors cinematic influences. Local casting gives the authentic feel to the film which in my opinion is well worth a view. Sadly, national cinema release has passed this film by, but if you get a chance to see it at an individual screening then do so. However, the most obvious way to see David Whitney's first full length film is to buy/rent the DVD/Blu-ray which was released nationally on Monday the 6th of September. Let's hope that Kandahar Break is the first of many films by this excellent new talent...David Whitney

this film is an Islamic morality tale with two lessons.one: is the oppressive nature of Islamic law. two: is how dangerous the ignorance and arrogance of westerners can be in an Islamic country. and how that ignorance can create dangers beyond western comprehension.and i saw it all coming within the first ten minutes. i cringed so much at the obvious outcome, that i fast forwarded to the end--an end that acted as a metaphor for the u.s. led invasion.this script does not work in a post 9/11 west--which is no doubt why it was set in a pre 9/11 afghanistan. i can't imagine anyone out there who is not familiar with Islamic oppression, as it has been constantly publicized by western powers to justify the intervention. overall, this movie is not worth the time it takes to watch it. and i love war movies. it's not worth watching, unless it preaches to a choir to which you belong.