This is a hard movie to comment on, because it chronicles something of importance, but at the same time never seems to dig any deeper than surface level events. It's an entire movie about Marie Colvin, in which we learn very little about Marie Colvin. What drove her? Who knows. Rosamond Pike's performance is good, but again keeps us at quite a distance from actually getting to know the character. This is clearly intentional. I just don't think it worked - for me. This movie tries but fails to establish a meaningful relationship between the central character and the horrific conflicts she's drawn to, but we never learn why. And we don't really gain any insight into the people whose lives are being decimated by civil war. There are movies that are far more effective at chronicling the extent of human misery, and the horrors of war. This one did not end up enhancing my perspective in a meaningful way.

Marie Colvin was a brave woman, but the film never truly gets under her skin. A documentary might have been better, especially considering the director's previous credentials. It's not a bad film. however, and it is worth a watch, if only for another painful reminder of the horrors of the Syrian conflict.

In the first five minutes of this movie, the main character makes some dumb claims about the war in Sri Lanka. The moment I heard that, I knew this is one of those career “journalists” who always pandered to the terrorists. Idiots like this woman was one of the reasons the Sri Lankan civil war ran for over three decades and claimed tens of thousands of lives. Shame on people like this woman and all the NGOs that made careers out of our misery!

It was not an action flick, but a film that depicted the tenuous and difficult life of a celebrated foreign correspondent. It was not easy to watch, with its realism and unforgiving nature helping with engagement. In addition, Rosamund Pike and the entire cast gave incredible performances that helped this film in its slower areas, which is where the acting shined the most. As a whole, after finishing the film, all I can say is that Marie Colvin was a certified legend.