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 enlarge | Director: Peter Kosminsky
Actors: Matthew Macfadyen, Damian Lewis, Cal Macaninch, Ioan Gruffudd, Darren Morfitt
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: Video
Buy New: £23.95
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Rating:  18 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 180 Minutes
EAN: 5024165834718
ASIN: B00004D08G
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: November 29, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: new factory sealed,this tape will probably not play in the usa or canada.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region. Opening with an extended view of the five's home lives--all are on leave when called up to form part of the UN peacekeeping mission--Peter Kosminksy invites the viewer to experience the war at a strictly personal level. And while this leaves little scope for any general political overview of events (aside from the horror of war) this is a piece of drama and not a documentary. Once transported to Bosnia, the protagonists find that their role as peacekeepers leaves them largely sidelined and unable to intervene and save lives, often forced to stand by and watch mass slaughter. Not since M*A*S*H have the absurdities of "the rules of engagement" been so eloquently examined. It is the darkening spiral that the five are sent on by these events and the relationships they form throughout them that forms the crux of the film, never demonstrated more clearly than by the return to the friends and families who see them as heroes. Bloody and sickening in parts, Warriors is given extra poignancy by the fact that it is based on the real-life testimony of British soldiers. A million miles away from the Rambos of this world this is the war film coming of age. --Phil Udell
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I was there, it was like that July 25, 2001
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
Serving 12 mnths in Bosnia myself with the UN as a soldier, I must truly say that watching this film brought me back. I watched in awe and it brought tears to my eyes to once again relive the months we spent there. The director manages to create the moods and feelings and frustrations that were so common for all of the soldiers serving with the UN. It also portrais the restlessness and feeling of unfinished buisiness that so many felt after returning home. This movie is truly one that most people who have former UN personell in their family or among friends should see. Maybe then they`ll understand. To the makers of this film: You have earned a soldiers respect.
Accurate, Powerful, Personal December 4, 2001
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Having perosnally witnessed the aftermath of the conflict in the Balkans, and knowing that it could (and will) flare up again in the future, I found this story to be accurate, powerful and truly personal in places. If the viewer wants to experience the real meaning of frustration, then despair, then horror....buy and watch.
A heart wrenching film with slap-in-the-face reality. June 7, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
With a cast of talented British actors, this film is a brilliant and realistic portrayal of the war in Bosnia. I've never had a movie affect me so deeply, as this puts faces to the suffering of those involved in such bloody warfare. As most British-made films do, this one removes the feeling of commercialized Hollywood movies, giving it more of something close to a documentary, which brings the viewer and the experience together for a few hours so that maybe we could all have a small idea of what the war was like. Incredible.
Powerful, Moving, Upsetting April 30, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Warriors is a hard hitting drama from the BBC. I first watched it 4 years ago, and watching again recently still left me in awe. The soldiers are human and humane, but hamstrung by the UN regulations.
Unable to help people directly due to fears of 'ethnic cleansing' they leave people to die at the hands of monsters who used to be their neighbours.
The drama also shows the effects of the conflict on their lives when they return to Britain.
A number of outstanding performances lend realism to the production. None more so than Matthew MacFadyen, who plays the scouser Pvt James, who deals with what he experiences in a simple, humane way. He is left baffled by the authorities unwillingness or inability to do the right thing. His passage from a joker to a hurt human being is the pivot of the drama; he experiences the very worst of all the shocking (and graphic) misfortunes that befall the crew. The things that they see and cannot affect cause anguish to those at ground level.
You must watch this.
Doing justice to a tragic European civil war October 12, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This film needs to be watched and talked about every time we are in danger of forgetting the terrible things that have been happening in the former Yugoslavia. Thanks to a superb script and unshowy acting by a young cast those of us who think of Bosnia as in the past and a long way away are reminded that this disgraceful war actually happened on our own doorsteps and that the human rights atrocities are still continuing, albeit elsewhere in the Balkans. I can't say I derived any pleasure from watching this honest and sincere production - but I felt it was exactly what the BBC ought to be spending our money on, and why we should still be proud of the BBC - and of our armed forces personnel who went and tried to make a difference.
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