The Water Diviner (2015)
The Water Diviner (2015)
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Critic Consensus: The Water Diviner finds Russell Crowe on somewhat uncertain footing as a director, but he's rescued by a strong performance from himself in the leading role.
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Cast
as Connor
as Natalia
as Lt. Colonel Hughes
as Ayshe
as Art
as Major Hasan
as Eliza
as Omer
as Dr. Ibrahim
as Orhan
as Fatma
as Edward
as Henry
as Young Art
as Young Henry
as Young Edward
as Father McIntyre
as Edith
as Captain Brindley
as Tucker
as Dawson
as Greeves
as Lieutenant
as Turkish Official (Arrival Hall)
as British Soldier (Arrival Hall)
as Colonel Demergelis
as Iman 1919
as Boy Soldier
as Thomas
as British Clerk
as Train Driver
as William
as British Soldier (Topkapi)
as Omer's Daugher #1
as Omer's Daughter #2
as Distinguished Turkish Man
as Orthodox Priest
as Turkish Band - Sunnet
as Turkish Band - Sunnet
as Turkish Band - Sunnet
as Young Veteran
as Blade Knife Sharpener
as Turgut
as Turkish Band (Gallipoli)
as Turkish Band (Gallipoli)
as Turkish Band (Gallipoli)
as Villager
as Old Pleasant
as Woman in Village
as Villager
as Villager
as Barber
as Whirling Dervish Leader
as Whirling Dervish
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Critic Reviews for The Water Diviner
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Indeed, this is the 51-year-old Crowe's first time as a movie director, but he's hardly a novice actor stepping behind the camera for some sort of vanity project.
It's clear that Russell Crowe has poured his heart and soul into the historical romance The Water Diviner, his first feature as a director. If only the film were better.
A sloggy, heartfelt piece of quasi-magical realist storytelling.
Crowe strives to strike a universal chord about the futility of war. Simplistic? Maybe. But in crafting a film about the pain a parent feels after losing a child in battle, Crowe transcends borders and politics.
Crowe needs, badly, a director to push back against his default mode: The script for The Water Diviner posits that Joshua Connor is the most interesting man in the frame at all times, but Crowe's performance doesn't earn that.
Even slightly self-censored, its images of broken cities and the walking wounded is a strong restating of the film's message: There is no such thing as a "good" war. There's only war - sometimes necessary, sometimes not. And always inhuman.
Audience Reviews for The Water Diviner
All the excitement you'd expect from a film about the battle for Gallipoli -- or, rather, from slogging through the mud of the battle field four years later in order to inexplicably, magically divine the places where your three sons died...one...by...one....in order to fulfill a promise to a depressed woman who killed herself long ago. Quick tip: Save you ticket money and take a two hour nap instead!
Super Reviewer
A cheesey love story that has an equally absurd plot. Well acted shame about the rest.
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Russell Crowe's performance is the only thing that prevents this from being a complete disaster, since his awful direction and the lame script turn the film into a Mexican telenovela for alpha males, with ludicrous situations, cheesy dialogue and Olga Kurylenko as an irritating caricature.
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