Welcome to Sarajevo Movie Review
Welcome to Sarajevo Review
"Welcome to Sarajevo" Overview

Rating: R
1997
Cast and Crew
Director : Michael WinterbottomProducer : Graham Broadbent,Damian Jones
Screenwiter : Frank Cottrell Boyce
Starring : Stephen Dillane,Woody Harrelson,Marisa Tomei,Emira Nusevic,Kerry Fox,Goran Visnjic,James Nesbitt
If Woody Harrelson is a journalist, then hell, I'm Woody Harrelson.
Welcome to Sarajevo is supposed to be a touching look at a group of foreign
correspondents who get so caught up in the conflict in Yugoslavia that they
risk everything to save a single girl and take her back to civilization. While
it's based on a true story, it seems every film that even mentions Bosnia has
the exact same arc. (And if I see another mopey character who has lost his
wife and daughter in a random shooting, I'll scream.) And Sarajevo is so
morose -- consisting of a series of long, pregnant scenes wherein the locals
mutter under their breath in broken English -- it's hard to get past the rather
cookie-cutter plot. In fact, it's hard to keep your attention from wandering
widely, wondering if it might be far too soon to make a movie about Bosnia when
the conflict there really isn't even over.
Reviewer: Christopher Null



