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Broj 55 (2014)
Shooting blanks!
This is a war movie. A pride of Croatia's cinematography of 2014. Portraying a famous battle of Croatia's war for independence in 1991. But, it is a poor effort. Though the photography and effects in some cases are decent, that is a small gain against fake dialogs, meaningless script and small time acting. The story goes about a trip of a DIY tank into Serbian village on Croatia's territory and the authors would like us to believe that the tank is actually assaulted by rebelled ethnic minority rather than the armored vehicle attacking the village in the act of ethnic cleansing. And those believing the first, are good guys, and those believing the second are bad, ugly, SOB s. The enemy is portrayed as an unintelligent bunch of ugly drunks- with compliments of wartime propaganda department. They are so stupid that they are playing cards in a stable fifty meters away from a battle, running in bunches on surrounded enemy, jumping into house occupied by the enemy through the window without using a hand grenade in front, giving the sound department a chance to terrorize spectator's ears with gunfire sound while good guys are killing them in dozens. Not much better than in partisan movies mass produced in former Yugoslavia by semi artistic propaganda teams. Both sides are using World War II names of Nazi collaborators - Chetniks and Ustashe for the opposite side, which were actually both sides' propaganda names (Chetniks have some history of resistance to Nazis, BTW). Good guys are so good that they do not notice that they have almost children among them, that they did not mean to but they must and that some of them are looking more scary than real Nazi butchers. Anyway, their war effect is not worth a Croatian Serb's house destroyed while giving them a cover and film makers' effect is not worth blanks used. If you decide to waste a more of an hour and a half of meaningless "our boys against the evil ones" story, your head will echo with loud gunfire noise while you're sending to hell Balkan tribes and their conflicts. No artistic values just film makers trying to engrave their names into national monument.