Sorry, this movie sucks

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

There are only two films which I could say that they portray war in Sarajevo in an excellent manner. One is The Perfect Circle (1997), probably the best one, and the other one is this one. There are many other films made about war in Bosnia, but I do not agree that they come even close to these two.It is a pity that this film did not make it to the wider audiences (it was shown only in the North America). This way I invite distributors to show this film to the European audiences, especially in the former Yugoslavia.Europe is full of the geopolitical rifts and former Yugoslavia was full of them. Some of them do not materialize into war like for example Catalonia, others do like Ukraine.This film tried to put a human face on what was happening in Sarajevo during the war. It certainly did a great job! If you want to know what was happening during the war in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995 this a film to watch. Excellent work by all means!

I don't get why people have a problem with the realism of the movie. I have many relatives in Sarajevo and they lived through this nightmare. Snipers didn't distinguish men, women or children. All were killed alike.People were killed while running for water and food. Kids playing in their yards were shot off the swing sets etc. Also some of the other things in the movie were that the Serbs took the residence of one lady living in the mountains outside of Sarajevo and gave the house to slavko right after soldiers are raping the daughter of the present resident of the house. This also has happened. The movie has a solid story. I don't know, maybe I am saying this because I can personally relate to this movie. Maybe if it played in another civil conflict, more audiences would be more open to it.

This is one fantastic movie. It really gets to you. Superb acting, dialogue. All too natural scenes.You would expect a high-adrenalin duel between the two sharpshooter, like in 'Enemy at the Gates', and when the events unfold in a different way you would start to think, 'Yeah, that's perfect'. And you would realize that had the final confrontation turned into a John Woo-ish 45-minute-long-butt-kicking nonsense, it would have spoiled the movie.

Shot through the heart is the best film I've seen on the Bosnia war. Others I have seen are Welcome to Sarajevo, Savior, Pretty Village, all good films, but this is the best. It really shows the true situation, and I couldn't help feeling the anger when the lead character says before the war, "just let them try to have a war, the American's will come right in like in the Gulf".This film is totally on location in Sarajevo, and you can see all the bombed out buildings. The main character has to make a big decision: whether to let his friendship with a Yugoslav turned Serb murderer get in the way of defending his neighborhood, or not. Very well done and well acted. I think this film must have hit too close to home for Sarajevans filmed so soon after the actual siege took place.Other good films I recommend: Ulysses Gaze, Underground, Cafe Balkan, Vukovar.