Sorry, this movie sucks

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I believe Mila's review is politically charged and don't fit to this movie. I've seen it and it is one of the best movies I've seen about ex-Yugoslavian wars. It makes out the point that there is no way to escape these wars. It's a circle killing everybody at the end. It goes on for centuries. The way war is depicted is so realistic, the director, Milic, has been himself in the war. There is no single woman in the screen, because it is a war movie, and no romance can fit in. All the craziness of the war is there, driving those soldiers mad. The craft of doing that movie is amazing. No wonder why Croatian school of film is probably the best in the Balkans. If you can, go see that movie. And you wan't need to see any other war movie in your life.

I saw this film at the 2007 Sarajevo Film Festival. It shows the parallels between the Bosnian war and the partisan struggle of World War Two. Especially poignant scenes are numerous. For example, when the patrol has killed everyone at an outpost they've come across. A member of the patrol remarks that one of the dead they killed went to school with him. At another point, the patrol look across a field and see the campfires of the long-dead World War Two partisans -- or was it fire eating the souls of the dead, as described in the Koran? Double entendre. The final scene has the departed soldiers standing together, the dead partisans from World War Two and the dead member of the patrol in the Bosnian War, standing together in the graveyard. This movie is a masterpiece of design and of photography.

This movie is just another of those from Croatia, which is trying to picture WW2 wrongly. First of all, there is 2 parallel stories, one from WW2 and another one from recent war in former Yugoslavia. Scenario is weak, based (and not justified) on "ghost" - although there are no real ghost here...Everything is unrealistic (at least the costumes are done well). Group of Croatian domobrani, with its ustashi captain is trying to fight partisans. We can not see the partisans. Battle scenes are weakly done. Nothing is seems to be good enough here. I just wonder why Velibor Topic accepted this role, story is weak and there is not really space fot him to show how good actor he is. Other acting is also poor and under-average. Croatian ustashi regime in WW2 (supported by Germany),killed and slaughtered thousands of innocent people (mainly Serbs and Jews) yet here it is not even mentioned, ustashi crimes are forgotten here. Ustashi and domobrani are just the group of armed people running through woods, and at the end we see "ghosts"?! No real end, no real story. I gave 1/10

I saw this movie on film festival and it was pretty pointless from my opinion! First off all scenario is pretty bad! There is no any special action except people running through wood! First of all when I've heard that movie have (or at least should have) two crossing stories from Second World War and Yugoslavian Civil War and that lasts 90 minutes I was amazed, but after watching the movie even those 90 minutes were too long. In both scenes there is just running through woods. What I liked is production. The way camera moves through scenes and from which angles scene rolls is pretty good. And that is only thing I pretty much enjoyed. I also must say that Im disappointed in acting. Im not very familiar with new generation of Croatian actors but all actors in this movie are pretty much amateurs. There is much more better actors in Croatia and movies too. Im not even sure how this movie get on festival!?