Review of 5 Days of War (2011) by Rick G — 16 Jun 2011

Not nearly as bad as expected. After all it did take almost 4 years and cooperation with the Georgian government. The film won't make it big in the theaters -- but that was never its purpose.

The movie has some decent battle scenes, but unfortunately the nature of the production prevented it from becoming any more than that: "good guys" in uniforms Americans can associate with and the caricature "bad guys" -- a mob of the baddies going through the town shooting all the time either in the air or at [presumably] civilians. That alone simply ruins the film because, ideologies and propaganda aside, it had some well directed shots and decent plot points.

Sadly, however, the plot is so twisted in an attempt to make a spin on the conflict that it breaks anything solid it may have had. Plus of course the baddies who came right from the 90s cheap action movies and have little to do in a decent production.

In short: it could have been a good movie, but instead they chose to pursue a different purpose.

In all fairness Russia has made a movie like this much faster. The funny thing is that it follows the same story line, just switch the sides.

But let it be clear for all those who did not follow the news: Georgia did start the war, it bears most of the responsibility for that particular stage of the conflict and loss of innocent lives on both sides. But its not solely responsible: it is sad when innocent people get caught up in political conflicts.

"In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed".