I found the movie to be interesting. If you are closed minded, you will not like this movie. To me it showed what I already knew: no matter your race or religion, there are bad guys and good guys on both sides. I felt that this movie showed both. Excellent acting from most. Well done, and rarely dull...

unfortunate when at war it is difficult to trust even your own, no matter where you are germany / vienam / irak /it is all the same. this movie is a good example.

I had no expectations going in, but this film kicked my ass. Loved it.

I liked it, although the plot is not witout errors, the film as a whole was well shot. Brutal!

A much better movie than the description leads you to believe...once again nothing is black and white, more enlightening than entertaining

A unique drama with a couple of flaws... the characters are not well built up... the story is pretty boring... and some of the story get overshadowed by the other story, but atleast worth watching once 6 out of 10

The most honest, non-partisan portrail of the Iraqi situation. An honest attempt to introduce the true nationalists in the chaos called Iraq. A genuine under rated gem.

For a simple non-partisan and yet clear view of 'the situation'... its a must-see for everybody... If it had been a bigger star cast & bigger budget.. they would have nominated this for an Oscar.

Iraq: don't go there.

Hot actor, that's it. Typical retarded American movie. Not even worth for half star.

at last soemthing about the war in Iraq thats not ra-ra usa is the greatest

This movie gave me hope. If a person with no talent made it in Hollywood, why can't I.

Finally a movie that doesn't portray the Americans as the heroes.

Americans in Iraq, insurgency rising, truth illusive. U.S. soldiers in Samarra throw boys off a bridge; one drowns. An American reporter and her Iraqi photographer pursue the story. Samarra's mayor aids the U.S. and fears the rising power of an ex-Republican Guard. The mayor uses a Baathist ex-diplomat to sell out his rival. The diplomat wants a post abroad, so he trades "intel" for safe passage. The reporter's lover, a CIA man in Baghdad, pushes for progress on public works in Sumarra; he promotes cooperation with Rafeeq, an intellectual whom other Americans call an insurgent. Rafeeq is in danger. All roads lead to the village of Al Tawr. War at its most opaque: Iraqis call it "the situation." Philip Haas has captured the complexity of life, of all news, of all visual expression, by showing a situation within a situation, by making a representation about a representation, by asking us the hardest thing of all, to think outside of what we are shown.

The worst possible kind of propaganda. This movie is in no possible way anything like being in Iraq. Having been there for 2 years I never ever saw anything like the crap this film shows. This movie will anger anyone who's been there. There is no basis in fact for anything like like this crap. This movie is the worst kind of lie about the war.

An impressive film about the situation in Iraq, where corruption of the newly introduced system but the US proves to be nothing short of maybe worse than the Saddam regime.

ruined by the constant soundtrack, shame, could of been one of the great anti-war films, if it didnt stink of hollywood interference

[font=Century Gothic]"The Situation" is an ambitious and well-meaning but talky movie about the SNAFU that is the Iraq War as seen through a group of interrelated thinly drawn characters who are just around to state various political positions which any of the fine documentaries from the past few years have done better. The two main characters, Anna(Connie Nielsen), a journalist who spends most of her time outside of the Green Zone, and Dan(Damian Lewis), an intelligence officer, are Americans and lovers. They also share an Iraqi source, Rafeeq(Nasser Memarzia). Anna uses him as a source on a story about American troops pushing two teenagers who were out after curfew off a bridge.(One swam to shore. The other drowned.) Dan sees Rafeeq as somebody who can help his cause, even though most of his superiors view him as a terrorist.(The movie is kind enough to point out that most Iraqis are not terrorists. At the same time, Anna and Dan are naive enough to think any good would come of the American invasion.) In Iraq, it is frowned upon to say the least to work for the Americans(not differentiating between the press and the government) which is a tightrope that Zaid(Mido Hamada), a Christian photographer who just obtained his first passport, walks daily. This is a solid setting for a movie but it lacks true focus. The incident on the bridge would have been a good one but it is only brought up occasionally, while the movie heads off on various tangents. [/font]

Nice movie. Some aspects of the film really give the impression that it is all real instead of a movie. There are also some scenes where you just know they are exaggerated.

Presents an interesting perspective on the ongoing conflict in Iraq. The overall message of the film is somewhat unoriginal. We know there is war and we know it is bad for both sides, but isn't that the case with any conflict? The conclusion here is the same as that of any other film based on a conflict. Overall, I would still recommend it because there aren't any films on the Iraq war out there and Nielson gave a pretty solid performance as well.