Nestali

An interesting and tense series that takes place during the military operation Storm, an operation in which the Republic of Croatia liberated the territory that was under the occupation of Serbian forces.

Director Kristijan Milic has already proven to be a great filmmaker, who not only knows how to shoot great action scenes, but also knows how to create a tense atmosphere. With a good director, even mediocre actors look good because he gets the best out of them, so the acting in the series is quite decent.

The sound is interesting, and although it could be even better, the soundtrack is well used to create an ominous atmosphere that gets more and more tense as the series progresses.

Some things could be much better, but when compared to the rest of Croatian production, this really looks great. So I will still give the series the highest rating, regardless of the shortcomings, because here obviously the production has invested a lot of effort. The acting varies, but as I've already pointed out, even mediocre actors look good with a capable director.

The appearance of the army is authentic, as are the equipment and markings. The locations are carefully selected, and the series is excellently directed and gives the viewer an interesting insight into a unique situation.

The real people were the inspiration for the characters in the show. The series is the story of brave people who defended their homeland. They are not forgotten.

Good action scenes, tense atmosphere, interesting characters and an excellent soundtrack.

I disagree with the other reviewers, this is not the best that was ever made on the balkans and "croatian film industry" DOES live in a bubble, its a state funded money burning mess therefore even we croatians mostly ignore it and stick to foreign productions.

For 3 episodes we watch 6 soldiers wander around a wasteland behind the enemies line, everytime the villan with a few of his thugs appears in the far distance, killing friendlies, the sniper NEVER takes a shot. In between we get some lenghty random dream-sequence.

In the final episode they end up dressed in enemies camo on a big party, ALL enemy forces present. In the evening they secretly start killing off some soldiers in close-combat using knifes or barehanded unnoticed by the other celebrating soldiers, the villain itself gets his skull crushed in with a rock. Than the 6 with some random girl drive of to escape the wrath of the enemy who in the meantime noticed the murdered soldiers. A shootout occurs followed by a car chase that in one moment started of by night and in the next scene continues by daylight with some more fire exchange between the vehicles. Now one of our 6 guys gets hit by a bullet, the enemies suddenly retreat and the group drives of "home".

In the radio we hear that the croatian forces successfully engaged its biggest counter-offensive (operation storm), bare in mind, the celebrating opposing forces (with the lacking security) knew about this offensive !!!

THATS THE PLOT.

Good start. Rest very bad. Teenagers maybe like it. Unrealistic for people who seen true war. Put our soldiers, dead or live, to shame in begining 3 episodes, never shoot bad guy or safe friends. Unheroic. All nonsense. Why dream? Why Lamb? Why gypsy ? Why ghost? Why girlfriend? All stupid.

Sorry my bad english.

These high-star ratings are obviously created by the director, friends and the crew itself, because after the average first episode the TV series went downhill instead of uphill, turned even mystery and has an absolutely cringeworthy corny supernatural end.

However, if you like bad TV series with utterly nonsensical plot and like watching people wandering around for hours, talking pubtalk that isnt even funny, this movie actually might be for you.

This is the second war-themed series in a row we croatians got to see on TV and it established its own flavour of being bad. I would call it General 2.0 because you dont really see where they spent all the production-money on but in defens of General 1.0, it actually teaches you mostly accurate historical facts while this is just made up BS that bores you to death for the most part, or gives you headaches when you try to make sense of how the plot unfolds or should i rather say: implodes.

dont get me even started on the western-music and the joke they ripped of from Predator at the end, oh yes and the lack of bulletholes during the last shootout or how they drove of by night, but than its daylight all of a sudden while still exchanging gunfire. they probably noticed they couldnt use the blue-filter-stuff they used in the 2nd episode to fake a daylight scene into a moonlight scene again because this time it wouldnt match with the real night-scenes from before ...

SO they didnt even bother, but added a dead persons "ghost" instead and ended the series on that note.

I'd give it a 6, but lack of eminent Academy award nominees like Momcilo Otasevic and Slavko Sobin are unforgetable. And directors didn't even consider to cast one of croatian best actresses like Jelena Veljaca Popovic Rastavljenic or Natasa Josko Nismo Se Tako Dogovorili Jonjic.

Othervise, great show to force your 33 year old son out of the house.