Adeel Hail
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
balimatorislon-56213
I have purchased the DVD many and many years after the Series went out. Honestly one of most realistic movies on the Bosnian conflict I have ever seen and it hit me like a rocket. I praise a lot the acting of Matthew Macfadyen (immense scene when he wants the Croatian warlord to suck his____) and an amazing Sheila Shehovich that I realised she used to be an interpreter in Bosnia during the war! What really hit me is to see how these British soldiers suffered of PSD after coming back from Bosnia. I believe that this would have been a tremendous situation, watching people being killed and slaughtered, without being able to intervene. Probably the worst ever situation that a peacekeeping force was caught in in hystory. I will keep this DVD on the sale and maybe one day I will watch it with my daughter. I already told my wife, who is in Belgrade at the moment, that I will not allow her to watch this one at all. I know she is so sensitive about the war years, being her from the "worst" category ever that could have been during those mad years: the beautiful fruit of a pure Yugoslav socialist dream, with a Bosnian father and and a Serbian mother that loved each-other so much against all odds and survived the war fending off external forces that wanted to break off their marriage. Za Mir.
adwilliams134
Warriors is a drama, but every incident you see in it is factual. The makers interviewed Infantry soldiers from UNPROFOR1 (The Cheshire Regiment) and UNPROFOR2 (The Prince Of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment).The MoD gave the makers permission to approach soldiers who had been involved in incidents so that they could replicate them for the screen, along with what the soldier's were actually thinking and feeling at the time.A lot of incidents were rejected on the grounds that they would not be believed by the viewing public or were just to 'bloody'.In addition, soldiers helped the actors wear their equipment properly, act properly etc.How do I know this? Two of the incidents depicted I was involved in. I was in the Cheshire Regiment. I have since testified in 2 war crimes trials at the Hague.No matter what you think, believe me it was far worse than what you see. You only see it, you don't smell it.To this day (2007) most of us that were their in that first year still have a feeling that somehow we failed those poor people and our politicians were weak.It is very, very well made and very, very realistic as to what it was like.
erika_takacs
I've seen this movie several times, and in my opinion it is one of the most important movie-opuses of our times. Directing, acting, camera-work: all these pieces create an absolutely excellent work. Yes, the Serbs should face what they have done there, and this movie doesn't give a fawning account of them. But... and this but is an aching absence in the movie factory of the world: what about the account of the English doing the same with much more people all around the world? In India, in China, in Africa, in Australia etc. (these are just the biggest places), not to forget about their deeds in Iraq, Afghanistan etc? When will they face their own sins in such a movie done with the same very talented and geniously acting young actors? The sooner the better. Because I think it is unjust to ill-use such a one-sided account for the world and then to act the part of the honest justiciary. Of course this is not an absolution of Serbs, as they committed real guilts there indeed. For example with my own countrymen!!! (as I am Hungarian). But I felt I have to tell this. There is a poem about all of this situation: "To arrange our common businesses, it is our work: and it is hard, indeed." We should feel not these "Iam the good,(as I am from Western Europe) and you are the bad (as you are from Eastern Europe)" feelings, but to face our common past, and create a peaceful present and future.
David Igra
BBC has always had a strong reputation of excellence, this hasn'talways been true naturally, but in this film the BBC once againmakes it clear that when it comes to drama you must turn to theBBC for the very best. Although it's about the war and surrounding conflicts of the breakup of former Yugoslavia, it focuses on the persons involved and indoing so, conveys in a very strong way the sentiments and anxietythey so clearly experienced in this horrific conflict. It is realistic andthere is no easy way of describing it, one could say that it is asdifficult as describing as it must be to if one had actually beenthere, taking part of the horrible situation in the lengthy process ofthe destruction of Yugoslavia.
