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.