In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I caught this title at Redbox recently. Wow the male reaction to this film is fascinating. I have always enjoyed how film produces some of the purest emotional reactions from individuals at the most interesting times. In the Land of Blood and Honey seems to be one of these films. as a film it has exposed something that has not or should very shortly be registering in the film arena. The female point of view muted until the recent technological boom , is now coming to sound. I am sorry guys , while I have no apologies , and enjoyed being the beneficiary of such implements , I like the rest of us live in the 21st century. The arguments used for keeping film production a male controlled instrument , are moot in the internet age. Angelina Jolie was probably being cautious in her responses to criticism of her film , but I believe you heard a script.The Statements that the military uniforms were incorrect are fine and pass as well upon scrutiny , the groups were not as well organized as military historical examination proves. The comment that Director Angelina Jolie got into a subject well over her head are crap. folks , lets get to it.Angelina Jolie filmed a movie about war and rape and did it from the female point of view unapologetically. Not being concerned with the Male opinion. What is good for the goose is likewise for the gander. This has gotten it's negative reaction for one reason only. The refusal of the public at large to recognize that A. movies are personal and are often a biased product of their writer , for a direct male comparison to this film see Fahrenheit 911. and B. Hollywood and the production of film are changing to be accessible to the internal whimsy of both sexes. Not hammed over for men if need be. When you stop hemming over the film traditionalist/feminist politics surrounding this film and accept the female point of view this was clearly filmed in , it is a good work.So in brief why 4 of 5 , factoring the above in the correct lens , I find that Writing and Direction pass , I believe Angelina Jolie wrote what she intended to and filmed it marginally well ( the technical errors of uniforms etc.. are correct), the actors acted the script well in fact I thought better that expected. the editing was average , I was actually left feeling a little flat if the objective was to paint a dark canvas around the subject. The flow was well put together no real issues in the sore arse department.It was in this war that rape and the act of rape were finally recognized as an inhumane offense(A War crime), not just criminal behavior. I am in fact certain that rape has occurred in previous wars regularly. but really?? Something this base to the female persona undergoes a direct cultural modification of massive change , and one I'm certain had been politically desired for how long by this group? I'm supposed to get all up in a fuss because a woman put it in the terms of a woman on film.You know if Micheal Moore can do it about Bush. Angelina Jolie can do it about rape.

I hesitated before seeing this movie. In general I do not like movies that show too horrors of war, not because I want to ignore the darkest moments of human history, but because usually I try to make the movie business a more pleasant experience. That said ... not too convinced I saw the movie. Obviously tells a story from the point of view that the director decided. Maybe many in Serbia do not like it looks for them, but unfortunately, what it shows is what happened. The findings of mass graves, the stories of mass rapes, concentration camps, snipers, ethnic cleansings, etc show what the world knows (or has been known as discovering more horrors). However, the director has the obvious right to tell the story that comes to mind from her the point of view. If the Serbs do not like, then make their own movie showing Muslims as evil. From the cinematographic point of view, it is not the most brilliant film of the century, but also to give it 1 or 2 star or say it's the worst movie in the world? Please! Perhaps so many negative reviews it has is because it gave a key ... really says something then.

Notable as Angelina Jolie's first movie as a director (and also as the screenwriter), this movie fails in many respects.The movie mainly centers on the life of one woman in the Bosnian war as she is held captive by a soldier who alternately protects her from the severely harsh life as a prisoner and then physically abuses her and kills her kinsmen. Had the movie just focused on this story from her point of view, it may have succeeded. But the movie strays into plot lines of military strategy of the civil war, other prisoners and horrors they face, the politics of the "outside world" ignoring the on-going genocide, and more. Each of those could have also been a successful story, but when combined into a single film, we are left with a jumbled mess of a story all the while relentlessly bombarded with Ms. Jolie's message that "war is bad." Since the atrocities shown are all performed by one side, it is clear that Ms. Jolie is also lecturing us as to who she believes the bad guys are. While I do not expect a Hollywood movie to be the equivalent of a documentary, since Ms. Jolie intended to show more than just the story of the captive woman, she should have (and easily could have) included a little more balance to the political agenda.For my other movie reviews, please visit:https://nomorewastedmovienights.wordpress.com

First of all, I want to mention that I haven't watched the movie nor will I because of personal reasons and also because it just isn't appealing enough to me. I don't know much about what happened during the Bosnian war nor the other Yugoslav wars simply because I wasn't born then yet. I've read stories and heard different interpretations of the misdeeds and atrocities that happened, as well as of the reasons why it all happened. I will conclude only one thing and that is that "it's very complicated" as one of the characters said himself. Therefore I think that Angelina Jolie, someone who comes from a country that has committed many misdeeds and was, in my opinion, very much involved in the atrocities that happened in the Balkans, had no business interpreting these events in her own way and making it into a highly publicized movie. I won't say that her interpretation is completely inaccurate, but she covered only one side of the story, while ignoring the other, deliberately or not. I personally believe that she didn't have bad intentions, she just didn't observe all the aspect and was full of prejudice and bias towards Serbian people, which is consequently creating a wrong picture in the world. It was just too much for her to take on and handle as it is such a controversial topic and it entails a great deal of responsibility. Reading the comments and the reviews of this movie made me realize that the movie had such a bad impact on interpersonal relations between people of different nationalities and religions in the Balkans, where the tension was already running high, that it made the situation significantly worse.To those who want to read about this war as I believe it happened, I recommend reading this: http://www.balkanstudies.org/articles/understanding-balkan-wars To summarize, a war is something you have to live through in order to know enough to make a movie about it and present it to the world. This specific war is particularly difficult and traumatic because of the number of innocent victims and the tragic consequences that are still appreciable. Therefore I think Angelina shouldn't have made this movie (this way) because it just reminds all the people who survived the war of the tragic events, as well as the unresolved issues and repressed feelings that are still very present. In the times when we are trying to break free from the past and make things better, this kind of reminder is not welcome.