Reviews

No heroism. No victory in the end. Only the uneasy feeling of the omnipresent heat, the lack of anything else required for whatever war you're fighting and a growing feeling of despair. Yet the story touched me because it was brought in a way that made it quite believable. The optimistic student who goes to war in the belief that the Italian army will be in Caïro in no time at all, because he believed the public opinion and the promises of Il Duce back home like everybody else did. I must hereby add, that that feeling of believing the story was very much fed by the fact that in my opinion the director and his camera crew knew exactly what they were doing and I also would like to give a big compliment to the casting people. Maybe over the years I have seen better war movies, but not many and certainly not from Italy.

No. After seeing this movie I had a rather strong feeling of dissatisfaction. I agree that Mr. Shyamalan has really tried to make something out of nothing but I'm sorry to say that in my point of view he wasn't quite successful this time. OK. I had high hopes after I saw the first few minutes, so I kept watching, but after a short while I got the feeling that this story wasn't going anywhere. I have been thinking of any kind of deeper thoughts involved and guess what? I couldn't find any! What the hell is this story about? Nothing more than a nice fairytale or what? I'm kind of confused here.....

Hank Mulligen

The casting was well done, but in the progress of the movie I kept thinking that I had seen this one before. Then it came to my mind that the story was the story of "La sirene du Mississippi" with Belmondo and Deneuve. The producer must have a nice sense of hummer to give his film the right title then .......... Anyway, Iliked the story (again) and I always find it an entertaining pleasure to look at Jolie and Banderas and being a European it will be quite obvious that I am definitely not offended by some modest nudity as shown in this movie. This was well acted and it seems to me that the cameraman was knew very well what he was doing.