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I love this movie so much

One of my all time favorites.

I'll tell you why so serious

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)** 1/2 (out of 4)The Serbian Danijel (Goran Kostic) begins a relationship with the Muslim Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) just as the Bosnian War breaks out. Soon Ajla finds herself a captive to Danijel but the two slowly fall in love as the war gets bloodier.Anjelina Jolie wrote and directed this film, which has a clear message throughout. There's no doubt that Jolie had a political motivation behind the movie and she wanted her message to be heard. Many people have called IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY an awful movie but I'm not going to go that far. In fact, I give Jolie a lot of credit for attempting to make a movie like this and especially when you consider it was the first feature she directed.There's no doubt that there are a great number of flaws to be found here and I think the biggest problem is in the screenplay. The plot of this movie is extremely light weight and I'd argue that it's way too simple and single minded for its own good. I say that because the love story here is just one-note and it's really not too hard to figure out how it's going to end. I think the film really would have benefited had Jolie punched up the film and made it a bit deeper than just these two opposites who find themselves attracted to one another.The battle sequences were certainly better handled by Jolie and she certainly wants to show the sometime graphic violence for what it is. I can't help but think that the director was influenced by SCHINDLER'S LIST and she wanted the violence to really hit people in the gut. Another problem with the film is that at just 127 minutes the film seems a lot longer due to the slow pacing as well as some subplots that really never add up to much.For the most part I thought the performances were the best thing in the picture with Marjanovic easily stealing the film as the woman who faces various forms of horror as she tries to survive her ordeal. I also liked Kostic in his role as I thought he managed to pull off the rather difficult character. With that said, IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY isn't a complete success but it's not the bomb some people have made it out to be.

I give this movie 1 because of talentless Angelina Jolie as a director, she is also talentless as an actress, but when she look good who cares. The only movies she shined in were disturbing movies. I also though it was a waste of time as Angelina seemed still very confused as to which direction to take the movie in. Even if it was biased I would have much preferred if someone like Steven Spielberg directed this kind of a big chunk of. movie, because he has a knack for reeling in watchers into a movie even some with ridiculous story lines. I also felt hat the movie lacked empathy and real emotions instead it was filled with disgusting scenes and crap over dramatic effects.

The story was sequenced without actual lead. No reality was involved, in one scene Aila was brutally raped in next she looks happy and having sex with her loving man etc. There are traces of true but whole story of Bosnian war was completely simplified. This looks like a bad copy of Emir Kusturica movie "Life is a miracle" 2004. Angelina Jolly should look this movie and she wouldn't probably never made this film. At the end it looks like somebody ordered cheap story for daily use. Pity! On the other hands actors did professional job. Scenes and environment are very realistic and authentic. Music is somehow out of story. I think that scenario had potential but with lot of changes and adjustment.

First of all before I go on I want to recommend you watch the movie in it's original language of Bosnian (and I believe it includes some Serbian and Croatian.) I'm not really sure how that works but (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_language) did a nice job of explaining it. So once again I think its very important for everyone to realize that my review is only talking about the version in Bosnian. So as far as the acting went I thought it was excellent and they all seemed very believable. With the subtitles in English their accents all seemed good to me. Now of course the story line doesn't change in a different language but I can't really go into it too much since I don't want to include any spoilers. I guess all I have to say is this, it's definitely not a formula movie. If you go in expecting it to be like the typical movie you watch you won't enjoy it. Just go in with an open mind. Of course I am biased as I personally enjoy non-formula movies that are willing to take a risk. but I think there is a lot of symbolism in the movie and I think it isn't afraid to try and address some real issues that are going on. People say the story line is disjointed but I think it all ties together nicely at the end. I personally compare it to movies like There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men. Now I would say those two are better movies but the styles are similar. Now there's clearly a lot of people who would disagree with me but I felt like that was why I should write a review supporting it. In the end I found it very entertaining and well done and definitely recommend you watch it (with an open mind.)