oyster_without_soul

This film is a result of a Croatian wannabe director wanting to make a Hollywood type historic spectacle. Naturally he flunked big time. Film even includes great Hollywood star Goran Visnjic??? If you are interested to see how bunch of Slavonians coped with WWII tragedies by drinking hard liquor, playing their 'tambura' instruments and saying cheesy lines during the not so short duration time of 200 minutes of theatrical emotional expressions and bad acting, go ahead... My subjective opinion is that if you can't make a point in 90 or 120 minutes, why even bother and 200 minutes, come on, quality before quantity. But you could probably enjoy this movie if you are interested in Croatian films in general, because this is a very specific school of film mainly based on politically funded comedies, social drama and war films.

It's a mystery to me how this movie scored so high since it has nothing to offer. I see that it's a B-movie, and that it wasn't made to make any point, or to question some philosophical dilemma , but it fails at the action-suspense level too. Acting is amateurish and bad, characters 2 dimensional, story somewhat complicated but anyone can make it complicated, just throw in some twists and turns, that lead to nowhere, and mention other dimensions and you got yourself a complicated story, but does that make it necessarily good? Effects and fighting scenes offer nothing new and spectacular (for some spectacular effects watch 'Legend of Zu'), swords and bullets fly around, limbs and heads fall to the ground, blood is sprayed all over, and that's it. People run through the woods, fight, utter some cheesy lines, than run some more through the woods and so on for the whole duration of the movie. Fine, for someone who likes non-stop action, but there are hundreds of movies like that, so what's all the fuss about this one?