Fresh and Exciting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Great acting, great photography, plus I needed tissues. Slow start, but very happy I kept watching. a great movie for those people who want to be uncomfortable, as some scenes were difficult to watch. But I loved it!!

Dr. Wren (Charlize Theron) is following in her father's footsteps as a humanitarian worker. She comes from a privileged background and spends her time mostly administering to getting supplies to the third world with most of her time being in the field. Here she meets a Spanish doctor, Miguel Leon (Javier Bardem ) and they fall in love, or she falls in love, or maybe he falls in love...but then they were separated for 10 years with both wanting to see each other but don't and there is also no communication between the two creating an awkward head scratching situation. The story utilizes flashbacks and I didn't know half the time what was the chronological order of events except Paraguay 1982 was the oldest and really didn't matter.There is some first person narration that wasn't that well written. Apparently the film was supposed to show the contrast in our lives, but did so poorly. The emotional problems of Wren I didn't grasp. She seemed overly confused for someone with her intellect. Her final fund raising speech was unmoving... "They are us." 'War attacks dreams." Poverty attacks dreams." She was playing a role that her father had laid out for her and I am not sure if she liked it or not, but they made reference to it a couple of times. "I was an ideal I had" was apparently the theme of the film and Wren unless it was help the refugees.The film was all over the place. I assume there was a book somewhere that tied this all together. They tried to do too much in the production.Guide: F-word. Brief sex. Brief nudity.

This film is just plain awful.Its about white people dealing with what happens in conflict zones, and the people they help are there to get hurt so you can see how bad the white people have it while they are there to help and how it really affects their lives. boo hoo.Heres a run through of what happens in a couple of minutes: Doctors helping, doctors getting evacuated, look at all the dead locals, doctors crying on a plane with blurry cam.Eeish.The dialogue is overly cheesy at times, the camera work is just annoying when its constantly out of focus / blurred / tilt shift. It doesn't do bring anything to the film, its someone getting in a lift for crying out loud.Therons whispery narration is cringeworthy to say the least.Its just terrible. It really is. Its the kind of film that appeals to people who think thats all that happens in Africa and who feel really bad for the white doctors etc and say things like 'oh it must be awful to see all that' yet don't seem to give two hoots about the people its actually happening to.Its Sean Penn stroking his own ego. Its his idea of how he wants to be seen, so people will be all 'errmageerrdd, Sean'I only watched it to see if I could find myself in the carnival scene in Cape Town as I was there when it was being filmed. But thought I'd give it a whirl. got about 20 minutes in but my eyes were hurting from all the eye rolls so I just fast forwardI wish i could bleach this film from memory.

A very graphic depiction of the horrors of war in Africa and a love story. The acting is beyond reproach; which allows for the lack of depth to the plot. The plot; that of a love affair between two field doctors who struggle with their job (vocation) and their feelings for each other. The cinematography is excellent; coupled with the sound track makes for a emotional experience. I watched it back to back 2x the same evening.