This is one of those rare times when I'm watching a non-Hollywood war movie. This is also the first time I'm watching a movie from Yugoslavia/Serbia/ whatever. The movie is supposedly based on real life events. I don't know how much of truth is in this movie. I have to admit that I don't have too much knowledge about this part of history.
The special effects look solid. The acting is quite good . The cast includes Yul Brynner ("Magnificent seven") , Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane") and Franco Nero ("Django"). I liked that the movie shows how ordinary people are suffering during the war.
The movie is long , too long (2 hours 40 minutes). The pacing is rather bad. The biggest problem however is the screenplay. The characters aren't well defined. The movie also terribly jumps from one scene to other leaving the viewer confused. For example in one scene a character is trying to destroy tanks with mines. It seems like an important mission. However we never get to see the result of his actions. The story moves to another subplot and later we see the same character on another mission. How did that earlier mission ended ? We don't get any information. The movie jumps from one character to another without really exploring any of them. I couldn't really care about anybody here. The movie is has bits of communistic propaganda in it.
The movie also looks kinda ugly. The copy I saw was of rather bad quality. The sound was very loud while the colors were changing constantly. It made an already bad movie experience even worse.
I felt tired after this movie and I definitely don't want to see it again in the future. Not the worst war movie I've seen , but there are far better and more enjoyable movies other there. I give it 3/10.
The special effects look solid. The acting is quite good . The cast includes Yul Brynner ("Magnificent seven") , Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane") and Franco Nero ("Django"). I liked that the movie shows how ordinary people are suffering during the war.
The movie is long , too long (2 hours 40 minutes). The pacing is rather bad. The biggest problem however is the screenplay. The characters aren't well defined. The movie also terribly jumps from one scene to other leaving the viewer confused. For example in one scene a character is trying to destroy tanks with mines. It seems like an important mission. However we never get to see the result of his actions. The story moves to another subplot and later we see the same character on another mission. How did that earlier mission ended ? We don't get any information. The movie jumps from one character to another without really exploring any of them. I couldn't really care about anybody here. The movie is has bits of communistic propaganda in it.
The movie also looks kinda ugly. The copy I saw was of rather bad quality. The sound was very loud while the colors were changing constantly. It made an already bad movie experience even worse.
I felt tired after this movie and I definitely don't want to see it again in the future. Not the worst war movie I've seen , but there are far better and more enjoyable movies other there. I give it 3/10.