Water Diviner Movie Critique

Water Diviner was a very captivating movie. It was the directorial debut for Russell Crowe. Russell Crowe played an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli in search of his three missing sons. Other main actors/actresses in the film were Olga Kurylenko, Cem Yilmaz, Jai Courtney, and Yilmaz Erdogan. The movie was produced in the United States and release on April 24, 2015. The farmer, Joshua Connor, embarked on a journey to find his sons, however only found one alive while finding the others dead. The movie had a mixture of mystery and action, but was very slow and felt longer than it actually was. The good story plot of courage and bravery saved it from being too dull through the excess of unneeded chatter and boredom. I would give the movie a three star rating because it really hit home with me, but was not astounding. After watching the film, I believe that it would not have been worth it to go watch the movie in the box office. The movie felt more like a moral story than actual entertainment. It showed the everlasting love of a father and the losses that he had to go through during the war. Russell Crowe did an incredible job of forming the story of his character and the story of the lonely Turkish widow and her son. The characters in the film matched the descriptions and dialect of the people that they were to portray. Characters such as the Turkish commanders and the British commander showed the different leadership ways of the two different cultures. The movie portrayed the ways of the opposing cultures, that of the Australian and the Turkish. The acting was the key factor in making this movie enjoyable. The action was not overdone and was precise for each scene. There were many flashback scenes that helped the audience follow along on the actions that the brothers and others took