The Water Diviner (2015) Movie Critic Review

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The Water Diviner (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     111 min
Rating:     Rated R for war violence including some disturbing images
Production:     Hopscotch Features
Genres:     Drama, War
Countries:     Turkey, USA, Australia
Languages:     English, Russian, Greek, Turkish
Director:       Russell Crowe
Stars:      Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney



The Water Diviner (2015) Movie Review: An Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to trace his three missing sons....

Cast

Russell Crowe

Isabel Lucas

Jai Courtney

Olga Kurylenko

Damon Herriman 

 

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Sara Stewart | New York Post

Crowe makes the most of his own quiet presence, and this ode to the world's never-recovered soldiers and their families is a fitting meditation on the insanity of war.

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Chris Bumbray | JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Beautifully directed and entertaining, but the history is problematic.

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Rex Reed | New York Observer

As a director, Mr. Crowe's camera meanders all over the place; as an actor, he mumbles and growls his way through the carnage like it was nothing more important than a re-make of Gladiator, filmed on old sets from Gene Autry westerns.

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Rob Staeger | Village Voice

Russell Crowe proves to be a proficient director in need of better material with The Water Diviner, an adaptation of Andrew Anastasios and Dr. Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios's inspired-by-true-events novel.

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Roger Moore | Tribune News Service

Stately, old-fashioned and sentimental...and historically revisionist.

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Joanna Langfield | The Movie Minute

Russell Crowe acquits himself nicely in this overly ambitious yet still slim historical romantic drama.

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Harvey S. Karten | Compuserve

War is hell and love is difficult in this epic-style, old-fashioned Hollywood movie.

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Fred Topel | Nuke the Fridge

A surprising number of technical mistakes for a major film released by a studio.

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Don Groves | Film Journal International

Russell Crowe's directing debut is an entertaining albeit flawed drama-adventure set in the aftermath of one of the most infamous battles of World War I.

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Staci Layne Wilson | AtHomeInHollywood.com

The Water Diviner comes up dry.

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Matt Brennan | Slant Magazine

In straining for the profound, the film ultimately loses its way in a veritable no-man's land of ill-conceived stylistic choices and narrative switchbacks.

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Travis Hopson | Examiner.com

The curiously-titled film is both a realistic war drama and a mystical fairy tale, and the styles don't always marry perfectly.

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Glenn Dunks | Glenn Dunks

If Crowe's performance wasn't as strong as it is then The Water Diviner simply wouldn't work at all and it would be harder to forgive some of his less impressive directorial judgements.

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