Perfect cast and a good story

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

A movie on the depths of human behaviour, the limits of endurance, and on forgiveness. Good themes, but not well executed. The ending can be seen a mile off. It is made especially easy as the rest of the movie moves so slowly you have heaps of time to figure out where it is going.Pacing is also off. Moves incredibly slowly, then once the two protagonists meet, it rushes to a conclusion. Feels clumsy.Casting is...odd. Both the leading actors, Colin Firth and Hiroyuki Sanada, are too young for the characters they are playing, and look it. Stellan Skarsgard has far too much of an accent to pass off as an English/South African/whatever the hell he was supposed to be soldier.All put in good performances, but were badly miscast.Good performances too from Jeremy Irvine as the young Lomax and from Nicole Kidman.An okay, but not great, movie.

WOW ! and tears that was my feeling after I completed this movie. Simply brilliant tale told so effectively through amazingly live characters. Acting and direction is top class. Flashback of war scenes without being too dramatic are so effective that they transport viewers back to those times in those particular places depicted in movie. It is not a large scale movie but it deserves higher ratings. Once you start seeing it, you will be involved so much that you will never want it to finish early.This movie shall be watched by all Cinema lovers. I am not a professional critic but this movie has a heart at it's right place and I become too emotional while writing this.Wars never did good to anyone accept external pride but souls have suffered a lot all over the globe. Humanity is winner all the way - Easier said than done.

Just when one thinks this is just another love story, this movie actually is much more than that. It's about dealing with your past in the present. It's also about fighting your (inner and outer) demons. Very nicely portrayed. Though the resolution might not feel right to some, this movie is consistent in what it is doing.The performances are really great and the flashbacks flesh out what and why the characters are in their current state. There is still a lot of in between the lines you can read and some things might feel either too much or too little (is it rough edges or soft edges?), but that will depend on your personal view of certain things. As it is, it portrays a battle (literally and metaphorically speaking), that is tough to fight with ...

It's always a pleasure to watch a really good, meaningful movie like this one, considering how many silly ones come out each year.The acting by Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth is perfect - better than some performances that year that were Oscar-nominated.It has intelligently-written dialogue and the cinematography is very good. The directing is spot on, there are no serious mistakes, shortcuts or flaws.This is a story that needed to be told, not just in a book or a in a low-budget made-for-TV film, but in a good movie like this one with talented actors like Kidman and Firth.