REVIEW - The Water Diviner

The Water Diviner is a good but not great film that tells the story of an Australian farmer - Russell Crowe - who travels to Turkey four years after the 1916 Gallipoli campaign, in which his 3 sons died.

As a farmer, he has a knack of finding water on his mostly dry farm by using Divining. Once in Turkey, he manages to use the same method to find the exact spot where his sons fell.

While covering a traumatic period in the life of the farmer, the 7,000 Australian and New Zealand forces that perished, and the nearly 70,000 Turkish fatalities, this isn't a war film. Neither is it a romance - despite Crowe sniffing around the widowed owner of his hotel in Istanbul.

Instead, it's an inclusive look - considering the Turkish, Greek, British, and ANZAC roles in this part of the First World War - at the aftermath of conflict.