one of the most painful depiction of war i have ever see and this show the effect of a civil war on ordinary people in a very powerful way . stony face dennis quaid be excellent as ever a the emotionally shut off mercenary tiring of the pointless and unresolvable fighting in bosnia and slowly allow himself to feel again some year after the horrific death of his family when a woman and child inveigle themselves into his life . some of the scene in here be beyond horrific and particularly near the end where a massacre of civilian be make to seem quite dull and everyday to the killer . the pointlessness of such tribal warfare be emphasise by the shadowy depiction of the combatant and the almost total absence of good guy and baddie i for one could rarely tell which side the soldier on screen be suppose to represent . certainly not for the fainthearted and this be war in all it foulness and degredation and fully expose the evil mankind can inflict on itself . not pleasant viewing and but a moving and powerful experience .