luka_jmuxa I'm not very good at English and sorry for many grammar mistakes. WEll, some people saying that this movie is propaganda and captured by anti-Russian federation but, I'm from Georgia from that little country. first of all south Osettia was Georgian territory until Russians took it. this movie is based on a true story u want how i know that? because i was there. i saw how they was killing our just normal people putting bombs in villages and killing people without any reason. and as u think Andy Garcia is not playing his role well. because Mikhail Saakashvili(ex.president of Georgia) was not that good he ordered and sent our boys to start the war he lied them that Russians attacked first and we started war but we didn't knew that. it was very hard moment for every Georgian people Russians started putting bombs into city Gori. and they reporters said in TV that they was arriving in Tbilisi. as u know Tbilisi is capital of Georgia. and other France and other country's helped us they're presidents came to Georgia and Russia stopped the war. it was longest 5 days of my life. and this movie is based on true story. that reporter is real too i met him in Gori and every details are correct. this movie is not anti-Russian or propaganda. if u want to see movie about war on based true story watch this and i think 5.6 is lower IMDb rating for this movie . :)

pejo ristovski People would think that kind of propaganda would be characteristic only for the past years of communism or Nazi Germany years ago. Too pity to see that modern day USA is down in standards to those old times. After all those events happened just recently in 2008 and whoever is interested in the truth can easily check it out in the news. Then it will be remembered that Georgia shelled the hell out of Tshinvali in the night of Aug 7 to 8, attacked the Russian peacekeepers and killed many civilians. Then Russia sent troops (as USA would do in similar and less serious situations). So, please check the news of Aug7 and 8 before you believe anything in that movie.

Dugay-g I'm writing to respond to the many reviews that have labeled this movie as propaganda. The movie is about events as they unfolded on the ground and what it is actually like to be on the ground during an invasion. Not the most well scripted movie I've seen, but the action was riveting and the feel of a war zone was authentic. Apparently some of the reviewers believe that if they were on the ground watching their community being destroyed they would be much more calm and fair in dispensing blame. I'm going to guess that they are all Americans because they think that war is a battle of good vs. evil and that there are legitimate reasons to drop bombs on civilian population centers!!! (BTW- I'm an American too) DROPPING BOMBS ON CIVILIANS IS A WAR CRIME!!! Not only do people die, but communities are destroyed, children are orphaned and in these conditions hatred breeds like wildfire. The men in aircrafts dropping bombs on a foreign population of civilians are ALWAYS the bad guys. None of the reviews that I read discussed the cause of the conflict in any meaningful way. I myself have not researched the origins of the conflict in depth, but I can tell several things right off the bat. First of all I don't doubt that some Georgians were violent towards Russians. When you consider the fact that the Soviet Union imposed a police state on the Georgians for over 50 years its not surprizing that the Georgians would want to chase the heartless foreigners from their country. Have you ever heard first hand accounts of what it was like to live under the police state of the Soviet Union. It was brutal. The terrorism was constant for over 50 years. They had informants in every aspect of the society that they were occupying (from Estonia to Hungary to Georgia) and they monitored peoples' political leanings and dissent was not tolerated. People disappeared on a regular basis. Terrorism. Try to imagine what it was like to live under that kind of blatant and brutal oppression for more than 2 generations before you comment judge the Georgians for whatever crimes they committed against Russians citizens in Ossentia. Its not surprizing to me that the Georgian people would want to kill the men who once managed the police state and probably got rich doing it. As an example that even an American may understand, lets consider the last time that our country was invaded by foreign troops - late 18th century. Did you know that the minutemen of Massachusetts were brutal in their treatment of the sympathizers of the British crown - known as Tories? It became commonplace for the minutemen to publicly tar-and- feather a supporter of the British crown and then to burn their house down. Not to mention the corporate vandalism that destroyed great chunks of British corporate wealth ... most notably, the Boston Tea Party. Given that fact (and that many Tories were murdered outright) does anyone today feel that the British were justified in invading a foreign land of people who had decided to claim independence? If the British had the kind of air support that the Russians have, we'd very likely still be a British colony today. The idea that the Russians had the right to use overwhelming military force defend the safety of Russian citizens in a foreign country is blatantly fascist. Another thing that I can tell you is that the Georgians have significant oil deposits and they were in the process of opening their oil to western markets ... if you want to discern the true reason for any war one should follow the economic implications and most of the time that will lead you straight to the actual cause of the war. In summary, "5 days War" may not be an in depth and balanced account of all of the factors that led to the conflict but it will serve to humanize the true cost of war. And the use of foreign journalists to tell the story is the most logical way to tell such a story because in the real world that is the only way we can ever understand what is actually happening in such a conflict. Military officials coldly refer to their mass murder as "collateral damage" and any modern military WILL always underestimate their numbers which is why we should pay attention to what journalists tell us about such brutal crimes against humanity.

phd_travel I found this movie well worth a watch. There are some faults but I think they aren't that major. The good points: Good on location feel. The battles and atrocities are quite well filmed. It's exciting and you feel part of the action. Shows the hard job faced by war correspondents. This is a war many don't know about or vaguely remember. So it's interesting to see a movie about a conflict that took place so recently in 2008. Interesting casting with most cast members playing nationalities they are not. Two Americans as Georgians: Andy Garcia as the Georgian President and Jonathan Schaech as a soldier. Rupert Friend, a British actor as an American journalist. Val Kilmer as a Dutch journalist. Emanuelle Chriqrui, a Canadian Morrocan as a Georgian lady the reporters befriend and who is trying to rescue her family. At least she looks her part.The faults: Some criticise that it was one sided showing the Russians as the sole perpetrators of atrocities. I guess it's up to the viewer to look more into what happened themselves. But don't most WWII movies focus on one side's point of view as well? So I think that criticism is a bit unfair.Another fault is there are some parts of the story that have a Rambo like action quality and unbelievability. It was a bit ridiculous at times during the rescue and scenes with the villains. This hurts the film but they had to make a story to entertain so I don't think it's that bad a fault.The movie wasn't successful financially and had bad reviews. Despite that I think it was entertaining and still worth a watch. It highlights a conflict not many people know about. For those who want action in a film might as well learn something about a little known war at the same time instead of just mindless action.