General

If you're not a masochist or an avid trash fan, do avoid it.

Production, lines, music, absolutely everything about this movie had me grabbing my head. Story about heroes that won an impossible war, led by Ante Gotovina, was ruined by incompetent Antun Vrdoljak. Battle scenes unrealistic and without real emotion (anger, pain, fear...). Love scenes even worse. Dialogues filled with cheap philosophy, utterly unrealistic. These men were soldiers, not failed poets. Very disappointed, incompetence ruined another great story.

This is a propaganda movie made by extremly incompetent people. Life of Ante Gotovina can be made into a very good movie. For some, he is a hero and for others, a war criminal. This is good movie material because it provides a lot of grey areas to explore. Here however, there are no grey areas, Gotovina is depicted as a flat, one dimensional hero with no flaw. Inspiration is obviously drawn from ex-Yugoslav partisan movies, war spectacles that used to be made in the 60-ies and 70-ies. While those were also propaganda films, technically they were well made. It's not the case here, acting is terrible, production cheap and unconvincing, dialogues and action scenes are ridiculous. Looks as if it was made on budget, however it recived generous funding from Croatia's public money sack. Half of the money dissappeard before it reached the set, obviously, and also some of the actors claim they weren't paid for their work. Seeing this movie will tell you more about Croatia today, than about our independence war. And what you will get to see is not nice, I'm afraid.

Corny, cringeworthy, paid from tax payers money which makes it a propaganda movie. Difference is astronomical between character played by Goran Visnjic and the real Ante Gotovina. Non authentic to say the least.

Don't trust these good reviews, most probably it came from director, and his family/close people. I'm giving it 2 stars ONLY because some side actors tried very hard to pull it out, and act properly. But it's impossible to do it with such an idiotic script. Mr. Vrdoljak should really stop making movies, especially with other people money. If he wants to embarrass himself, he should definitely do it with his own money.