Combat pour la justice

Lazy movie made by a lazy director. The characters are grotesque. Despite the tragic of this war, there is no emotion at all in the movie. Symbolism is artificial and inefficient (and old Bosnian woman giving a photo of her son to Arbour will "concretize" her willingness, will awake the super-mother sleeping inside her, a corpse eaten by worms to show the horror of genocide... too much is sometimes worst than not enough).

This movie is only an advertisement, an empty elegy to a woman who is not a hero. She worked for United Nations. Remember UN failed to protect civilians at Srebrenica. Who are the true heroes of this war? A Canadian judge leading post-mortem trial for atrocities that happened mostly because her organization failed to prevent them? Where is the criticism in this movie?

This movie is badly told and awfully screened. In few scenes there's irrelevant data or information given to a public such as 'Kosovo- Macedonian border, January 1999'. Actually, that's Serbian-Macedonian border. Also, I find that it favours one side only. The atrocities done in Racak village were given without information that 2 Serbian policemen have been ambushed and killed and one seriously injured a day before this killing. Dialogues with generals in Sarajevo(in first 30 minutes of film) were silly and cannot be taken seriously.

All in all, if you haven't got anything else to do, and feeling bored, watch this movie.

This movie gives a rather simplistic glimpse into war and the war crimes of the Slobodan Milosevic regime (Post Yugoslavia - Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia,etc.) and the lead tribunal At the Hague, Netherlands of Canadian Louise Arbour.

The movie is less than two hours and in that time the director is too choppy in bringing this story together. This movie does not really flow very well and because of this I felt that I did not connect well with the characters and did not feel their pain. Yet, Because I remember watching the actual trials on TV (which were actually more interesting), I knew that I should have felt a lot more compassion and empathy for the actors portraying the victims in this movie but I did not. However, having said this, I still feel the information in this movie is important and the main character is interesting but I am not sure how true to life this movie really is with regard to the actual characteristics of Louise Arbour.

Thank God I was not operating any heavy machinery, it could have been an even worst disaster. Shots were slow & very repetitive. Different scenes, same shots, medium shot, medium shot, medium shot, snooze. Story line was rather empty. William Hurt was the worst. Where did he get that stupid accent from? Random shots of scenery just to include them really didn't add much. There were more shots of Arbour traveling in her car than anything else. The direction really didn't take us into any of the scenes & it also didn't make me feel for any of the characters. I would have rated it a zero if IMDb had the option. Great sedative if you can't sleep. There went 2 hours of my life I will never get back.

I found this movie to be educational, entertaining and very moving. I was impressed when I learned of just how much Justice Arbour had contributed in during her time in Kosovo.

Wendy Crewson is highly under rated and it is good to see her again in a Canadian production. Other easily recognizable stars are Leslie Hope (24) and John Corbett (Sex in the City.)

While the story line of this movie may not be completely factual it did leave me with the desire to learn more about the word of Arbour. A great movie for inspiring young women.

I say the movie is a "must see."