Russell Crowe, who has three Academy Award nominations to his name for his roles in "Gladiator" (Winner), "The Insider" and "A Beautiful Mind," has now taken on a new role: Director.

According to an article on USA Today, his new movie "Water Diviner" is about an Australian man named Joshua Connor in post World War I, who undertakes an emotional journey in Turkey to locate his three missing sons. Crowe cast himself in the leading role and makes quite an impression.

The movie has hit theaters this weekend and, as expected, has seen a nominal amount of success. The style of the movie as reported in the article, includes a varying degree of camera shots, beautiful landscapes, several flashbacks of his sons in battle, authentic fights scenes and less than authentic relationships.

The premise for the movie, as reported by PopMatters, is that Joshua Connor and his wife have received news that his son's were killed in battle. He is only given their bloodstained clothes as proof. His grief-stricken wife eventually commits suicide and now, left with nothing or no one in his life, he undertakes a journey through Turkey to find his son's body and bring them home for a proper Christian burial.

He encounters resistance while there, of course, by the British bureaucracy and ends up in the inn of widow Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko) and her son Orhan (Dylan Georgiades).

According to Time, reviewer Daniel D'Addario had some less than kind words to say about the movie and Crowe. He said that Crowe, rather than focusing on a great story, focuses on himself in the lead role.

"Joshua's powers are never explained by the movie, and we're given no reason to believe they'll work, until they suddenly do. Being a psychic, here, lays somewhere between fatherly intuition and boorish over-confidence," D'Addario wrote.

What D'Addario was referring to is for instance, Connor's ability to locate water in the desert and also his uncanny ability to locate people, namely his sons.