[Movie] "5 Days in August" (formerly: "Georgia"/ "Red August")

[I. Kant]

A new Renny Harlin film about the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. Personally, I am flabbergasted that this should come out. I'm waiting for Putin's move :IS2:

I've already checked, and there's a rich response from my dearest friends the Russians (sample: YouTube - ‪Hollywood Offends Millions with Goebbels-Style Charade‬‏).
Nonetheless, my initial feeling is that the film was made to Saakashvili's commission - or something to that effect. Taking into account Harlin's nationality (he's, to my surprise, Finnish; thus, perhaps not wholly amicable towards Russians?) and track record ("A Long Kiss Goodnight", which apparently some of the 9/11 inside-job-theorists hold up as a great piece unveiling CIA's modi operandi), he might have made the film out of a genuine need to spotlight this conflict to the wider world.

Anyways, the trailer felt like a pro-Georgian distortion, so I wonder if anyone's seen it (it's already come out in the US, no?), or whether they're going to.

 

[kapulA]

Sounds interesting. However, you could've included a link to the actual trailer

Edit: Oh well, my bad, it's in the related videos. Anyways, this matter is still very much murky to me, if the South Ossetian claims about Georgian genocide and ethnic cleansing are true, I am of the opinion that it's a good thing that Russia intervened. And if so, this movie seems pretty detestable...
The fact that Russia is portrayed as the invader while Georgia actually invaded S. Ossetia seems to further my opinion, and the fact that a similar situation occurred over here and not too long ago would also be a significant factor to consider, as the entire war could have been a much less horrible and genocidal issue had there been a timelier foreign intervention...

 

[The Masta]

Looks pretty ****ty.

 

[PNV]

Looks like a crock of ****e if you ask me. I took no specific side in that conflict, but Saakashvili was a man of theatrics during the whole thing. He was not the great, oppressed leader the trailer makes him out to be.

 

[I. Kant]

Like I wrote, Saalashvili is good at the PR game, he knows which buttons to push. My wife's Ukrainian cousin lives in Georgia with her Georgian husband and I've yet to talk with her honestly about the war (albeit she was in Kiev during the whole affair). She was non-plussed about the Georgian president, though.

One note about the Russia Today coverage - it's one thing to blame somebody for "Goebbels-style propaganda", it's another do the blaming game, while using such strong and emotionally-biased language as was used in their coverage, I think. To my mind, both sides are guilty here.

Also, on another note. I remember a few years back Abkhazian TV - which my father watched a lot - kept showing one of Renny's previous films, "A Long Kiss Goodnight". Seriously, they'd play it every month or so.