John Laing

Worth watching. Intense and gripping, but don’t expect a movie that focuses on the war itself. The reason for the war and the fighting that is included are really only a backdrop and aren’t as important as the central narrative about the journalists. Go in expecting a war movie and you’ll be disappointed. Watch it as a study of the journos, and it’s a far better film.

A crock. Completely misses its mark, especially for Australians for whom the opening satirical/comedic comments about one of our most tragic natural disasters resulting in “landscape that even Australians find inhospitable” falls completely flat.