Review of The Water Diviner (2014) by Thorn S — 25 Jan 2015

"The Water Diviner has an interesting story but failed completely in telling them".

It's seems like the actor / actress changing to director hype train is so real right now for example Ben Affleck with his Argo , Angelina Jolie with her Unbroken and now The Water Diviner directed by Russell Crowe.

Even though Russell Crowe gave us an good or great performance as an actor but his directing is so much different as day and night , it's seems like he doesn't know the proper or the correct way to tell the story and make it interesting since the way of his storytelling now is so out dated feels empty and lack of creativity which is the worst thing that can happen when you're the director.

To add more sad thing about this movie is how much I got interest in the story and theme of the movie , this is a pretty much another Anti-War movie with it's story about War between country that cost the life of father mother or even brother , the story it self is so much interesting but the problem is like I said earlier Russell Crowe doesn't know how to tell the story properly so a lot of scene that should be dramatic that should be memorable end up feels empty and boring with is a shame since the story is so good.

In the end The Water Diviner is not a good movie but it's not completely terrible it has it moment with great screenplay but the movie start to fall apart since the beginning of the movie because how bad Russell Crowe is in directing , this is another wasted potential movie which make me sad.