From my favorite movies..

Excellent, a Must See

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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.

Renny Harlin used to be the sort of director who managed to turn sub-bar screenplays into entertaining and quite thrilling films. '5 Days of War' is not one of them. I don't care much about how much propaganda one movie contains (Sergei Eisenstein? Anyone?) as the real truth usally lies beneath somewhere. My biggest probleem with that movie was that it lacked any sort of direction. The scenes were badly bound together, the story was all over the place. THe characters lacked any depth, and the actors mostly just walked through the scenes (especially Val Kilmer who is usually very capable actor). Saw that film first time when it was released, second time was couple of weeks ago, and I couldn't even finish it. So, my question is - did they even try? I mean this conflict surely deserves much better depiction on the screen than it got from '5 Days of War'.

So why did I like the movie? Because in 2008 I, as most of the world, was more concerned with my little deeds, than understanding war at neighbour country. Russian Federation is very skillful at lie, and it can distract not only from the truth, but from the tragedy in general. But later I studied what happened and was shocked. And then they attacked Ukraine with same methods. They ruined lives of millions of people and pretend they are not involved. Very similar to Georgian war. And only now I watch the '5 Days of War'. Movie '5 Days of War' is a must-see. It's not just carefully picking sceneries of country and horrors of war. It shows in a brief way real documentary facts everyone should know. Movie made me shiver from despair, fear, sadness, horrific tragedy. And it's not just movie, reality is around us - just read some comments. And guess who left them. But before watch the movie and read some books about what happened (Marcel H. Van Herpen's would be good to start with).Truth is the worst Russian's enemy. And always was. Movie is a great asset for those who want to know history a bit better but lacks of time and effort to reveal the truth. In that perspective '5 Days of War' is almost documentary. Not fictional as all Russian propaganda's movies are('Avgust. Vosmogo' for example). The main thing - Mikko Alanne and Renny Harlin briefly describes for viewers those 5 terrible weeks - ordinary Georgian had to live through. All who studied thoroughly history of Russian-Georgian war would find movie to be not just good, but absolutely needed as even now Russian Federation continues to do everything possible to hide what they did to Georgia in 2008. And world still does not studied events good to oppose Russian aggression. People still doesn't know enough to understand such movie is a MUST for everyone who ever learn something about Russians and their methods.Russian federations breed honor and does it not by mistake, but deliberately. They create criminals on purpose – to do the dirty things with other's hands. As always they use all methods, including (and especially) terrorism, to reach their goals. Also I have seen some commentaries here. You know - they hate, people who wrote them, they hate everything that brings light on the events, everything that tells what Russian did exactly. Only one "true-story" is allowed - Russian lies. I am not exaggerating. The have never opened KGD archives, they continues to terrorize, kill and lie. They are very good at lies. Don't be distracted with low evaluation - movie worth it, to understand what was happened and what is going on now. Movie is tough. It's only one little piece of horror that was brought from the north to the Georgia. Good camera work, realistic big-scale effects and just very beautiful sceneries, people and culture of Georgia! It is worth seeing and such lessons must be learned so not to let repeat it in greater scale.

Movie starting with Russians attacked,But reality it was different and it changed whole history about this war,Expected more than killing scenes from this movie, something historical and cause of the war something, but whole movie is showing massacre and all time blaming Russian side without proof and reason ...Better read some documentary instead watching this movie, movie should be replaced - Israeli and Palestine if director wanted to show about terrorism Better suite the story of movie.Really don't understand how it has got 5points vote, may be all Georgians gave 10points for the movie but all knows it's totally different from history and that 5points is just a waste of time for the audience to suggesting this horrible movie...

5 Days of War is a film not out to give an accurate depiction of the 2008 Russo-Georgia War, but to gloss over any implications and make its own biased, fictitious version of it. War is a touchy subject to conduct a film on, but thankfully, many war films have been exceptionally well done and stellar in quality. This is the first one I've come across that is poor in quality.It's so rare to see a war film robbed of all character development, emotional elements, plot, coherency, and facts. Yet, 5 Days of War shows us that it is possible and that when done in such poor quality it can further cement an event into a sea of puzzlement. The United States of America wasn't up to date come time of the Russo-Georgia War in August of 2008, and Bush had decided to leave the country out of it. A smart move if you ask me. The US was already starting to get hit with one of the most deadly recessions of all time and, already fighting two wars, it was a good plan to let two other countries just settle out the differences by themselves. So, to release a film in America about the war was actually not a bad idea. The problem? Because our knowledge on it is so limited we could easily be persuaded the wrong way. And that is what 5 Days of War appears to be doing. Persuading people the wrong way.Georgia and Russia both committed several atrocities in the time of the war. The film makes it look like Georgia was minding its own business and the big, bad Russians just decided to blow the hell out of everything Georgian. Georgia actually helped to trigger the Russians into fighting back in the war. That part is almost wholly absent.The film revolves around Thomas Anders (Friend), a reporter who was rescued upon visiting Iraq with colleagues after being gunned down in their car. A year later, he gets word that conflict is brewing in Georgia, so heads out to cover the story. Anders meets a young Georgia woman named Tatia (Chriqui) and another reporter named Sebastian (Coyle) where they must learn to survive during the war.It seems 5 Days of War is less concerned with actuality and being an informative piece of work, and instead tries to be a gritty action film. Going into this expecting a nice, expansive retelling of events leading up to the war, I was presented with typical war schlock with loud, unnecessary gunfire and over-exaggerated acting all around. This is also one of the first war films I've ever seen that was void of all things emotional. It was moot in the field of playing with your tear-ducts, mainly because you don't know the characters well enough to form any sort of opinion about them. There is a scene where one of the main characters is shot off of the back of a moving truck. Her friends and companions are clearly shocked and sobbing uncontrollably. We as audience members are staring blankly wishing a tear or two would form. Alas, nothing but utter silence followed by increasing restlessness and dreariness.At the very end, the film goes sentimental and right before the end credits we see many people who've lost relatives in the five day war between the feuding countries holding pictures of their loved ones and honoring them respectably. Even in this field emotion doesn't ring, but we do feel sort of uneasy. Think about it; you watch an empty, mundane war film that is absent of emotional elements only to be tested for tears one more time before the credits role showing people who have lost their loved ones in the same event. The whole act sounds contrived and almost unforgivable.Starring: Andy García, Val Kilmer, Richard Coyle, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rupert Friend, Johnathon Schaech, Dean Cain, Rade Šerbedžija, Antje Traue, and Heather Graham. Directed by: Renny Harlin.